Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just plain spectators ran into a barrel of minor complications. Some groups, with visions of perpetual motion machines and gadgets, devoted their energies to tracking down the Mechanical Room, only to come finally on a sort of boiler room packed with air-conditioning machinery...
...employee agrees . . . that he will not do or commit any act or thing that will tend to degrade him in society or bring him into public hatred, contempt, scorn or ridicule, or that will tend to shock, insult or offend the community . . . or prejudice the producer or the motion picture, theatrical or radio industry in general...
...surprised to find a totally different verdict from the box office. According to Motion Picture Herald, none of 1948's top-grossing films appeared on the "best" lists. Ignoring the critics, as usual, most moviegoers flocked to see The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, Cass Timberlane, Green Dolphin Street, Life with Father, Mother Wore Tights, Road to Rio and Unconquered...
...Year," there was no noticeable scarcity of mutation mink and diamonds among the 1,500 diners. The only damp spot in this glittering evening was the five minutes during which Georgia's Ellis Arnall got off to a belligerent start as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. He scolded Eric Johnston and brashly challenged him to a debate on monopolies and the movies; he proposed that misbehaving Hollywood figures be "banished"; to top things off, he called the guest of honor "Zarryl Danuck...
...wheat to music? The idea fascinated him, said Composer Thomson. It was a "problem of representing by music, which is made out of motion, something almost motionless...