Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excuse, if one exists, for backstage stories lies in the fact that the cinema regards itself as a realistic medium. Consequently, producers feel obliged when introducing music to make it, not an integral item in their story, but part of a story within a story which can then be relegated to the less realistic medium of the theatre. In operatic cinema, this complex convention applies even more strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated...
Four hours after eating a big slice of "an ordinary culinary onion of domestic growth, of medium size and fairly pungent.'' every quart of Dr. Haggard's breath contained one-billionth of an ounce of onion oil (allyl propyl disulfide). "The odor was still detectable by the sense of smell...
...their collaboration Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh reported: "Changes in form and volume took place in the organs from day to day. Thyroid glands perfused with diluted serum were observed to decrease in size progressively. On the contrary, ovaries or thyroids perfused with a growth-promoting medium modified their form and grew rapidly. In five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such...
...call this discovery to their customers' attention in elaborate analyses of the new industry. Some people cocked a skeptical eye at the mushrooming of William Fox or the Brothers Warner but certainly Paramount Publix seemed a citadel of cinematic conservatism. Indeed, Paramount was the $300,000,000 medium through which the House of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. had seen fit to lift the film industry to the financial equal of steel and railroads. But Paramount had an Achilles heel. In the process of acquiring the world's longest theatre chain (1,600), the company had wisely paid in common...
...theatre chain, Fox Film Corp. became, except for Paramount, the biggest cinema company in the world before its founder was ousted in 1930. Reorganized in 1933. the company's net profit for 1934 was $1,273,000. Twentieth Century owns no theatres at all, exists solely as a medium for the producing genius of excitable little Darryl Zanuck. The company was organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded United Artists' President Schenck to back his new company, release its productions...