Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing more than a photograph of what was designed for the legitimate stage. "The Criminal Code," which is now playing at the University, is distinctly an exception to this rule, for here the movie director has removed all of the elements peculiar to the stage and has adapted the plot with considerable skill to the rapidity and scope of the screen. He has not allowed himself to be confined by the picture frame of a theatre, but instead has incorporated into the sound and film the whole large scene of prison life...
...plot has to do with the effect of imprisonment upon a young man who is the victim of circumstance. Regardless of whether or not it is true to existing conditions, the picture is constructed of scenes showing the conflict of the ethical codes of the authorities and the prisoners and their means of enforcing these conflicting codes. On the one hand there is the power of the armed few pitted against concentrated, passive resistance of the mob. By a judicious use of the camera both impressionistically and realistically the feeling of the situation is made more tense than would...
Baldwin's Plot When Baldwin Locomotive Works one year ago moved to Eddystone, Pa., a valuable plot of land was left behind in Philadelphia. About 19 acres, this land is near the heart of Philadelphia, is valued at around $10,000,000, has been for sale but has not been sold. Last week the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. considered the plot as a terminal...
...plot smells of melodrama; the honest devotee of the public had gone too far and tread on the wrong person's toes. Machination followed recrimination and Mr. Kresel has been found wanting. Of course he may be guilty. Somehow, the courageous actions and brief plea for public confidence of a man who is held for circumstances over which he seemingly had no control make a continuous pattern with his actions in the past. And the past, as someone naively remarked--it was not Mr. Kresel--is the judge of the present...
Private Lives is written with a basic honesty that is apparent even beneath its not extraordinary plot and glib lines, almost every one of which is pure gold. Sample: "Some women should be struck regularly, like a gong...