Word: projectors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such moviemakers as Russia's Sergei Eisenstein-who got in trouble by making Czar Ivan the Terrible look too terrible-could have told Sun that the party line is not easily threaded through a movie projector. Just as Sun's acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression...
...conferences must play a very important part in ironing out writing difficulties. Instructors of this course should be especially willing to give personal attention because, as the experiment of General Education A has shown, the principals of composition cannot be learned solely from reading rules and looking at a projector screen...
...Great Train Robbery. This simple arrangement spells an end to a brother act that began in 1903, when 16-year-old Sam Warner paid $150 for a movie projector and a print of The Great Train Robbery. The brothers made so much money exhibiting the film that in two years they were able to buy a vacant store in New Castle, Pa., to use as a nickelodeon. Brother Jack sang songs while Sam ran the projection machine; Al drummed up publicity; Harry was the booking agent...
Joseph H. Hockey, a third year law student, was injured last night when a heavy reel of film slipped off the balcony movie projector during a movie in New Lecture Hall last night...
...projector was located in the balcony and was partly jutting but over the heads, of the audience in the orchestra. The reel slipped loose and fall over 15 feet to hit Hockey directly in the forehead...