Word: offing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The 225,000 feet of film (printed from 475,000 feet of film exposed) had to be cut and spliced into a moving picture short enough to exhibit.
Last day of shooting was July i, 1939. With shooting completed, cutting began.
The Picture. No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy...
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But Gone With the Wind was a U. S. Legend. In fact, it was two of them. Legend No. i was the only great U. S. war epic-the War between the States-told from the Southern side. Legend No. 2 was the heroic and unhappy love story of two...