Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greenwich in 1908. Discovery of the satellites was not only a telescopic feat, but a matter of practical importance to astronomy. As far back as 1675, Ole Roemer, Danish astronomer, noting that the eclipses of Satellite I varied with the distance of the earth from Jupiter, discovered the motion of light, and made the first calculation of its velocity...
Appearing this week in U. S. and Canadian newspapers were the first advertisements of an institutional campaign, to promote the cinema. The slogan, MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT, had been MOVIES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT till it was noticed that the original initials spelled out MAYBE. Funds for the $1,000,000 campaign were raised half from the studios, a quarter from exhibitors affiliated with the studios, a quarter from independents. Most of it will be spent on newspaper advertising. There will also be radio programs, six trailers, a contest in which 5,404 people will win a total...
...subconscious. Psychiatrists will deprecate this skepticism but will join the rest of the cinema audience in applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire...
What particular people are most popular with the motion picture audience? The motion picture audience is the nation-wide voting population...
...days ago a whisper, fortunately untrue, raced round the world that armies standing over against each other in unhappy array were to be set in motion. . . . We in the Americas are no longer a far away continent to which the eddies of controversies beyond the seas could bring no interest or no harm. Instead, we in the Americas have become a consideration to every propaganda office and to every general staff beyond the seas...