Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Sommes, as Job, uses a trained voice, feeling gesture, and deeply thoughtful modulations, to bring subtle variety of mood and thought into an almost motionless stage-picture. Scene follows scene with scarcely a change of position, each motion of arm or body being made to serve for deepest significance. The three misunderstanding friends, and Eilhu too, are individualized and play their parts each in perfect key; this must be, or the play would never carry. The lighting, mechanically perfect, seems to grow from the characters themselves, shifting with their mood, and always throwing the picture into the most appropriate...
...votes on the referenda in Massachusetts a "yes" vote was registered for all but the motion picture censorship plan. The Prohibition Enforcement Act, the law to require District Attorneys to be members of the Bar, and the act pertaining to Voluntary Associations all received a favorable vote, according to returns from all but a few towns...
...judicial sense supporting the commonsense of the country is against contention." The Court, therefore, placed Motion Pictures in the same class as amusements, such as theatres, circuses, etc., which is always subject to regulation before exhibition, and is not in any manner governed by the same laws as affect the press and free speech. (The United States Supreme Court in Mutual Film vs. Industrial Commission of Ohio, 236 U. S., on page 243.) To Americans the decision of the Supreme Court is an end of all controversy. The fear of the press that regulation of Motion Pictures is an entering...
...have there been such evils in Motion Pictures? It is sufficient to quote an editorial in the Boston Herald, in defense of the Industry and appealing for vote against the law. Yet the Editor said: "The Motion-Picture magnates descended to such depths of indecency and obscenity that decent people were aroused.... We believe that they deserved severe punishment." A police officer, railing at the "old maids" that were asking the legislature to pass such a law, added: "But one thing I should like to see stopped,--Motion Pictures are making all the boys in my neighborhood little thugs...
Thus it will be seen that the opponents of the law misrepresent its meaning and effect. This is only the beginning of their misrepresentations. In their pamphlet "The Truth About The Motion Picture Situation" they quote Secretary of State Hughes as saying: "Censorship of films is un-American and intolerable". November 3 the State Federation of Churches received a telegram from Secretary Hughes saying that the statement has been published without his approval or knowledge. A pamphlet of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America was republished in garbled form. The Federal Council at once disclaimed...