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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appetite for films. The movies, said Woods, have nothing to fear from TV-if they hop on the bandwagon in time. That means turning out films especially for the living room at prices televisers can afford to pay. Then Woods blandly added what sounded like an ultimatum: "If the motion pictures are unwilling to enter this new industry on this basis, then my company is most certainly prepared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Rivals | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...motion pictures about the United Nations and how it works will go on the screen in Cabot Hall tonight at 7:30 p.m., during a joint meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe UN Councils. All students are invited, with a special invitation to freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UN Clubs Present Film | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...this time has prompted unfavorable comparisons with Olivier's "Hamlet." This is quite unreasonable, in view of the above given information and more; the two Shakespearean heroes were of a completely different emotional and intellectual nature, so is the poetry they speak, and so are the two motion pictures. Olivier's reserve would be as out of place in "Macbeth" as would Welles' turbulence in "Hamlet...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Orson and Old Luce: Report on Macbeth | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

...Macbeth" is an unparalleled achievement for American motion pictures and another bright, if somewhat unpreened, feather in the cap of Mr. Wellcs...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Orson and Old Luce: Report on Macbeth | 10/22/1948 | See Source »

When she decided to build her new factory, she laid it out with some of her own shrewd ideas of how to eliminate waste motion (e.g., it has tilted tables down which workpieces slide from one worker to another without having to be carried). By such production-boosting devices she expects to step up her gross next year to $14 million (her net is Nellie's own secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Nellie's Big Night | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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