Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general plot is not one of originality, but it is handled by the author in a fresh and stimulating way. The director, unfortunately seemed to be unable to decide whether he was photographing a stage play or making a motion picture. The result is that the possibilities of a movie are not touched, but his material was of such a high caliber that the production still remains a success...
...might suppose that such a Swiftian critique of the motion picture business springs from an attack of cinematic sour grapes on the part of either Mr. Hart or Mr. Kaufman, who makes his first stage appearance in the part of a disappointed author. Actually, neither man has ever been to Hollywood. But each has spent 30 min. in a studio at Astoria...
...eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes goose-stepping through a marsh. Most of the other episodes, though fairly interesting, are stencils. The incidental sound effects are supposed to have been recorded in Africa but they are not convincing enough to mitigate the suspicion that they were put in later, in Hollywood. Explorer Paul L. Hoefler made...
Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...close. Outside of the Institution of marriage, the machinery of the organized Church, the intricacies of modern education, and the Rotary wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders...