Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most cinemagoers would probably say, if asked, that every U. S. motion picture has to be passed by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Hollywood knows better. Since 1919 the industry has paid almost $1,000,000, at the set reviewing-charge rate of $6.25 a reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been...
Last fortnight Hollywood's loudest mouthpiece. Editor Martin Quigley's Motion Picture Herald, announced that the industry did not intend to continue paying reviewing charges to such a fickle outfit. As proof that Hollywood means what it says Editor Quigley cited In Old Chicago, which had the board's cachet, did not choose...
...grade could read as well as present-day sixth-graders. The professor thereupon set out to invent improved methods of teaching adults to read. Chief advance over the system of Dr. Stella Center at New York University's reading clinic (TIME, Dec. 6), was the use of a motion picture film that flashes successive phrases on a screen, to guide the eyes along a line of type. In 15 one-hour lessons Dr. Buswell increased the reading ability of his adults 15%, was highly pleased...
...Athletics Association has shown interest and a willingness to help, but the Freshmen must take the initiative, for they are the only ones who can put an inter-Hall organization on its feet. The Union Committee is in charge, and it is up to them to set in motion this spring an organization that will give the Class of 1942 the ground works for further development. If one or two boys were chosen from each Hall to hunt out all those interested, the chances are that the rest of the Freshman class would respond, and an invaluable Freshman institution might...
...will discuss the differences in operating practice between American and British railways, illustrating his talk with lantern slides and motion pictures...