Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...
...first systematic use of motion pictures in the United States to illustrate courses in biology, is being effected in Biology A at Harvard, according to J. A. Haeseler, Director of the Film Foundation, who is cooperating with Associate Professor Jeffries Wyman of the Biology Department in bringing the plan into operation. A series of experimental showings is being carried on in conjunction with the regular lectures in the second half of Biology A, which deals with zoology, and already five showings have been given, depicting the lives and habits of protozoa, invertebrates, and vertebrates, and exhibiting important studies in embryology...
...main advantage of the motion picture method of teaching biology is that various processes, microscopic and otherwise, can be filmed at great length, and then speeded up in exhibition, thus depicting the entire process in a short time, and laying emphasis on significant stages of development, arbitrarily chosen by the producer in his laboratory. Thus the necessarily limited scope of laboratory instruction can be supplemented with "living" specimens from all parts of the world, including many which are unavailable in a laboratory, and "biology ceases to be a course depending upon words, charts and black board diagrams...
...audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe-at-home" motion and a raised forefinger, say even more than his lines...
...elaborate public celebration of the event; in several other cities, companies of infantry in full array marched through the streets amid the cheers of "patriotic" citizens. Loyal Americans have made articulate their satisfaction at participating in one of the most destructive wars of history. During the past week, motion pictures of these parades have been shown in newsreels at theatres in order to stimulate the patriotism of persons who have not been in a position to demonstrate it in public...