Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Advancement of Science (TIME, Oct. 5), Dr. Robert T. A. Innes, astronomer, indicated that he has been able to produce stereoscopic effects on the cinema screen. Last week the foremost U.S. authority on the subject, Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Telephone Laboratories, showed the Society .of Motion Picture Engineers at Swampscott, Mass, why stereoscopic cinemas were yet impossible in practice...
...make a cheap bazaar out of every street? ... I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music. . . . Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man. ... I gave them the motion picture . . . and millions of minds were . . . trivialized and anesthetized by that endless nicker of ... venality...
...Property, will be published this autumn and in future he will devote more time to writing. "Advertising has by no means seen its zenith or done its best work,'' he said last week. "It will be more scientific in the future. . . . All wealth comes from dollars in motion. The only known way to set dollars in motion is by advertising. . . . These are the same people who were enthusiastic customers two years ago. They still must live. We got them to buy with advertising when money was plentiful. Do we expect them to buy without advertising when money...
...Leases. Spoyros Skouras and his brother George built up a chain of motion picture houses in the Middle West, sold them to Warner Bros., but kept some theatres in & around St. Louis. Last January the Brothers Skouras resigned from Warner Bros., began building up a new chain. At the start of last week they had 26. At the end of last week they had 73. The 47 new theatres were rented from Fox Theatres Corp. on 26-year contracts, consist of all Fox's Manhattan-Brooklyn-Long Island chain except for the de luxe houses. Fox had tried previously...
Side Show (Warner). The romance of the circus, the glamour of sawdust, calliopes, and spangles has long been celebrated in song & story but particularly in stories written for the cinema. This one follows the accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor; a moth-eaten lion ; a fight in which the circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story...