Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improbable that he will ever design such a device on paper, let alone in a machine shop, although before his mind's eye he may see it in every detail, motion, and defect. He is a great visualizer...
...Lost World (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925), and from other life-explaining sources, went to Mr. Darrow and said: "I understand that ever since the Scopes trial you've wanted to put forward a motion picture to educate the people to your contentions about Evolution." An arrange ment was made whereby Mr. Laemmle's Universal Pictures would supplement Mr. Cummins' bits with connectives and shots of Mr. Darrow. No scientist, and very, very serious about the proposed picture, Lawyer Darrow called in Smith College's goateed Professor Howard Madison Parshley and they spent three hardworking months preparing explanatory dialog. Last week...
...Fred Eastman of Chicago Theological Seminary, roundly flaying Cinema Tsar Hays. Stirred to imagine that where there was much Hays, there might really be a smokescreen, Bishop Francis John McConnell announced that the Federal Council's research department would study the activities & effects of Tsar Hays' Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...
Last week the Federal Council v. Hays controversy was brought into the open when the Federal Council published, in 151 pages, at 50? a copy, its report on the activities of Tsar Hays and his Motion Picture Producers & Distributors, Inc. Tsar Hays simultaneously published his reply to the council's report in the form of a letter to Bishop McConnell. Just before the publication of both reports, the most painful evidence of the divergence between the Federal Council and the Hays organization was provided when Carl Elias Milliken, onetime Republican (1917-21) Governor of Maine, resigned from...
Observers felt that the Council's report at least served the purpose of calling attention to the fact that the cinema is now more influential and definitely more immoral than when Tsar Hays became President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...