Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston badminton professional named George F. ("Jess") Willard visited Hollywood. Cinemagnates, always on the lookout for new fads, showed only less enthusiasm for learning the game than for telling the rest of the world all about what they had learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport...
...junior dean. He is at dutiful pains throughout his easy-going pages to give credit where due to the men who have made game fishing into a well-defined national sport. Examples: To oldtime Charley Thompson, credit for guiding the first party to take a sailfish on rod & reel, in 1901, after an 87-pounder had jumped into his boat and nearly speared a lady...
...snapping his guests and letting them snap him in and about his swimming pool at Livadia. Intended for the royal album, these naive shots turned up last week un der very different surroundings - the screen of New York's Filmarte Theatre, as part of a seven-reel documentary film tracing Russia's history through the War and the 1917 Revolution. Assembled on the general lines of Laurence Stallings' The First World War (1934), Tsar to Lenin consists principally of old newsreels intelligently fitted together by Her man Axelbank, who spent 13 years collecting them, and Writer...
...modern and efficient as the liquor trade is the aim of the Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy...
...story is divided into five parts, carrying out the theme in as many different settings. It represents the culmination of D. W. Griffith's early success in "cutting" and assembling lengths of film to form the final twelve reel picture, a then very advanced step in cinematography...