Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beautifully printed and well bound by the Chapel Hill Press of the University of North Carolina, the book itself is a worthy medium for the conveyance of its many valuable and refreshing ideas...
HALF MILLION MILWAUKEE CITIZENS STRUGGLING THROUGH GLOOM AND IGNORANCE ACCOUNT ABSENCE OF MARCH OF TIME FROM LOCAL SILVER SCREENS. URGE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO RESTORE DESERVING MILWAUKEANS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER INTELLIGENT AMERICANS THROUGH TIME-WORTHY MEDIUM OF VISUAL EDUCATION. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT MILWAUKEE THEATRE WILL TAKE LEAD IN SHOWING THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNING WITH FIRST RELEASE...
...likely to be the case with cinema stories which are genuinely suited to their medium, no recapitulation of the plot of The Whole Town's Talking can begin to convey its superlative qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion...
...ordinary laboratory work and have instead been meeting in informal sessions with special instructors. Required work for these men has been reduced to a minimum and the material of the course has been covered by original and individual research by the students, later correlated with the course through the medium of discussions with the special instructors...
...pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high life and are intended to make less implausible by contrast a wandering plot in which Jim Branch saves Sharon from an entanglement with the would-be Senator by getting the facts to show that he killed his onetime...