Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broken Hearts. The proverbial melancholy of the Russian Jew is herewith condensed into a motion picture with Maurice Schwartz principally cast. Mr. Schwartz is the notable leader of the Yiddish Art Theatre in Manhattan. He makes a pretty good movie actor, and has at least had the courage to play a picture which is all sorrow. It is about a Russian youth whose Russian wife came to life after he had remarried in America...
...Means Committee, told the House: "I came back today with the best bill I could get." There was a small minority in opposition which wanted to recommit* the bill because a retroactive reduction was made in last year's estate taxes, but they were prevented from getting their motion before the House because only one motion to recommit is allowed and a Florida member beat them to it with a motion to recommit to have estate taxes entirely abolished. The House as a whole had no sympathy with the proposal to wipe out estate taxes, and voted down the motion...
...producer's job to bring his story to a climax and at the same time allow the transient audience to catch on all the way along the line. D. W. Griffith is quite sound in his belief that this hap-hazzard method of presentation hampers the artistic advance of motion pictures immeasurably...
...magically turned a five billion dollar debt into a present credit of sixteen billions. The industrial majesty thus won sweeps swiftly down a prolific path of production, invention, and copious remodeling. New attachments, parts, and styles are flooding the twentieth century triumphs, the automobile, the aeroplane the radio, the motion picture...
...invented by John L. Baird* of Glasgow that permits "looking in" as well as listening in. Broadcasting from a televisor station in London was to begin at once. The receiver, costing £30, consists of a point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense speed, through lenses in a revolving disk. Using ordinary methods to broadcast the words of people moving...