Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the seals came into the circle of light the fish were thoroughly frightened, and quickly gained speed and surfaced. As soon as the wings cleared ever so slightly they were flapped in flight-the motion being so rapid as to constitute practically a blur of movement, like the wings of humming birds...
Yelling "Foul!" before a glove had been laid on him, Trade-Publisher Martin Quigley (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily) loudly proclaimed that anyone who took cinema seriously was simply being sham & vexatious. "It is the industry's judgment and mine," sparred Publisher Quigley, "that the entertainment film belongs in the province of entertainment and nowhere else. If there are others who wish to use this medium for a message which they imagine the world is yearning to hear, the obvious course for them is to get a camera and go to work." Bouncing out of the opposite corner...
When Publisher Quigley dropped his guard and went into a crouch: ("Well, what do you want us to do?") Professor Eastman straightened him up with a jarring left: ("The motion pictures should tell their stories on the screen truthfully according to human values. They should not lie about them.") At the sight of Socialist Norman Thomas climbing into the ring to join Professor Eastman's attack, Publisher Quigley retired to a neutral corner. Paramount News Assignment Editor William P. Montague took his place, gave ground a little when he admitted that newsreels perhaps tended to be superficial (see below...
...Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan got $120,000 for a library of important motion pictures produced since...
...there was a prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...