Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles barflies were intrigued by a new diversion: automatic quiz machines. For 5? ginmill intellectuals could try to answer five questions of 6,000 printed on a motion-picture reel...
...Hawaii vacation. Will pay two-thirds cost of 30-day all-expense cruise to Hawaii in return for your appearing in colored motion-picture travelogue on Hawaii...
...customary for Hollywood to take itself seriously in every instance, the Awards being no exception. However, the ad-man for a recent motion-picture, "Chicken Every Sunday," recently bilied Celeste Holm as "that Academy Award winnin' gal!" Miss Holm was given her Award for appearing intelligibly in anti-anti-Semitic film...
Movies. At a televised meeting in Manhattan, stockholders of Paramount Pictures, Inc. approved separation of the company's motion-picture and theater divisions, as provided by the consent decree between Paramount and the Department of Justice (TIME, March 7). As of next Jan. 1, President Barney Balaban will be head of a new Paramount Pictures, Inc., and Leonard Goldenson will become president of United Paramount Theaters, Inc., operating or owning 1,424 movie theaters...
...first glance, the story of a 17th century priest who spent the last 43 years of his life working tirelessly for the poor, the sick, and the aged would seem to be unattractive raw material for a motion picture. "Monsieur Vincent" does fail to escape the difficulties imposed upon it by the story--it has few dramatic moments and no plot; it "preaches," to a degree. But the total effect of this picture is one of strength and simplicity and unquenchable sincerity. Somehow--the reasons cannot be ticked off "one, two, three"--Viscount de la Grandiere, the producer, and Maurice...