Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protests were made by rival organizations. Twentieth Century-Fox felt uneasiness because Joan Blondell burlesques Shirley Temple singing "The Good Ship Lolly-pop." Report had it that the character of Director Koslofski was a damaging caricature of Josef von Sternberg. Trade papers tittered that Stand-In laughed at the motion picture industry. The last is true, but the laughter is large, warming and contagious. Stand-in is not an acrid satire like Once in a Lifetime or Boy Meets Girl, but a panel of broad, sure dimensions. It shows the bottom as well as the top, emphasizing that the vast...
...clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small class with Robert...
...wood carver named Charlie Mack. The model was an Evanston newsboy. After college, Bergen and McCarthy took a job in a vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture earnings this year should total over $150,000. He has in reserve a second dummy called Elmer Mortimer Snerd...
These films are a logical sequence to the excellent series of American motion pictures that were presented by the energetic Film Society last year, and they were so popular both in the afternoon and evening showings, that many more applied for membership in the Society than could be contained in the Geographical Building, where they were given...
These films meet a very definite educational need in the University at large, besides being first-class entertainment, because they are instructive in that they present the best in motion picture art for any given period, and show the development of the technique and setting of the industry in logical and instructive sequence. The Film Society may well be proud of its achievements if it repeats its successes of last season...