Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime across the continent in Hollywood a shutdown of the nation's major cinema studios remained all week in prospect as 6,000 painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing...
...been sold down the river," cried the head of Federated Motion Picture Crafts, his hopes of a sympathetic Guild strike crushed. "The working people of this country made these stars. And we will break them...
...wiser. Even before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg prudently dissolved his own party, loudly and publicly joined the Nazis. Herr Hitler was grateful, for a while, but last week Alfred Hugenberg was forced to resign from his last important job: director of UFA, Germany's largest motion picture company...
Featured songs on the program will be "The Rows of Roosevelt" and the "Name Song." The latter will be accompanied by a motion picture of the classmates under discussion. The dancing will be another high spot in the show, and the "Fancy Formations" waltz ballet number by the daughters of 1912 is by no means the smallest item of entertainment. Fred Child, professional dancing mentor, has directed this part of the affair...
...principle of "balance-in-motion" is relatively simple. By means of electrobasographs Dr. Schwartz determined that in natural walking the big toe propels the body forward, the heel and outer margin of the middle feet merely bear weight. The heel strikes the ground first, stays there 0.4 sec. Then, 0.15 sec. after the beginning of the heel's impact, the middle foot begins a 0.4-sec. roll upon the ground. Just as the heel lifts clear, the big toe comes down for a 0.2-sec. contact. The instant the toe of one foot is ready to leave the ground...