Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual banquet of the Harvard Engineering Society tonight at 6.30 o'clock, Mr. Frank Gilbreth will speak on his method of using motion study and moving pictures in industrial production. All members of the Harvard Engineering School, as well as alumni, are invited to attend the dinner, which will be at Louis', off Avery street, Boston, and will cost $1.75 per plate...
Your recent editorial comment on the consideration of motion pictures as a class record by the Junior class at Yale is distinctly gratifying, in that it shows an appreciation of the qualities belonging peculiarly to the cinema record...
Such personal experience as I have had, has served only to emphasize a conviction that the motion picture record must replace the conventional' "class photographs," or at least supplement them. For such a record preserves the actual life and reality of things; it shows the individual as he really was, and not simply as he looked to the eye of a camera planted four points north by northwest of a dignity-fighting countenance...
...recent proposal of the Junior Class at Yale is adopted, the motion picture industry will have a new field to invade. The scheme is to record life at Yale by means of the cinema. In this way, alumni coming back for class reunions could review the events of their own time. Such a vivid reproduction of college life is highly practical and would be a source of much pleasure to those graduates who will have been out of college for some years...
Definiteness, then, of the kind that neither insinuates, nor reeks with, a purpose; tonicity, straight, penetrating, exuberant as a March wind--these qualities put all the pages of the Advocate in motion. From the brief "Conversation between Two Eminent British Authors", which clamors for quotation...