Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Library of Motion Picture History, a subdivision of the Department of the Interior, is a fancy bred in the head of motion picturedom. An attempt is to be made to put it into law, so that in the future true and infallible history may be unrolled by a few reels from the film library...
...projecting machine, with full operating instructions, will be sealed in a steel vault, specially constructed to preserve the film and machine in perfect working order, and with these will be deposited a copy of the working script of the picture and a few copies of the best books on motion picture production and practice. The reason for the projection machine is that in the 185 years to elapse between 1924 and 2109 tremendous changes will take place in motion picture production and exhibition and the donors of the Lincoln picture will take every precaution to insure the proper exhibition...
...Harvard College Observatory announces the discovery by Stroobant, the assistant director of the Royal Observatory at Uccle in Brussels, Belgium, of an object in the following position; March 5, 3101 Greenwich Mean Time, right ascension 2 hrs., 42 mts., 28 sec.; declination North 16 deg., 44 mts.; daily motion right ascension 1 mt., 20 sec, of time, East, 10m., are North...
William H. Thompson, onetime Mayor of Chicago: "In connection with the incorporation at Springfield, Ill., of the South Sea Research Co., I arranged to send to the South Sea Isles an expedition to take motion pictures. Said I: 'There are many millions of persons interested in fish. .... I have strong reasons to believe that in the South Sea Islands there are fish that come out of the water, can live on land, will jump three feet to catch a grasshopper and actually climb trees. And I figure that pictures of fish climbing trees ought to be profitable...
...material result of the conference was that plans were set in motion for a student colony in Pennsylvania next summer to discuss the economic system...