Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Motion Pictures...
Said Producer Goldwyn: "The reason given for the latest Washington agitation about motion picture salaries was that someone had discovered that about 400 persons in Hollywood were drawing 51% of the salaries. ... I was surprised at these figures. I would have said that 40 persons in Hollywood deserved to draw 51% of the Hollywood income." Public bragging about stars' salaries was customary in Hollywood until major cinema companies began going bankrupt. Lately all producers have shut down on this kind of information for fear the size of their salary lists would create an unwarranted impression of affluence which...
...Censorship is what ruins the plays which are taken from Broadway and turned into pictures," continued Mr. Gribble, "It makes motion picture production absolutely dishonest. There isn't a fact of life which can be shown on the screen. In certain shows you can't even mention the fact that a woman is going to have a baby. The reason why pictures are unintelligible even to minors is that they are not made to conform with any standard of morality but with a synthetic code made up by committees of bigoted people...
...give a lecture entitled "From Da Vinci to the Wright Brothers" on Wednesday evening, February 28 at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of the Geographical Institute. This is the second of a series of public lectures on serial photography. The talk will be illustrated with lantern slides and motion pictures...
...also to the community," Dr. Charles L. Kuhn, curator of the Museum, has undertaken to give a series of lectures every Saturday morning at ten o'clock on, art and related subjects to 200 eighth-graders from the Cambridge public schools. Each lecture will be followed by an illustrative motion picture. During the week the students will make trips to the Boston art museums, where five Radcliffe volunteers who are concentrating in Fine Arts will set as their guides...