Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each epee is a special plunger which, when it touches an opponent's body, is depressed, thereby closing an electric circuit. A double wire runs down the sword, up the performer's sleeve, down to his belt and along the strip to a reel, which gives the wire enough play for the fencer's movements, and thence to a control box. One-tenth of a second after a touch closes the circuit, a bell tinkles and a light flashes simultaneously on the judge's table, indicating which contestant has scored the point...
...recent Universal Newsreels, cinemaddicts have twice observed an extraordinary character named John Q. Dohp. He appeared first in the reel about the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes. After the customary parade of giggling prizewinners had explained how happy they were and what they planned to do with their money, John Q. Dohp, as a sweepstakes loser, wagged his head in foolish disappointment, explained he had been buying sweepstakes tickets for many years but still hoped to win eventually. Two weeks later, in a reel about Manhattan socialites parading on Easter, John Q. Dohp appeared again, this time as an incongruous and loutish...
...milestone in cinema history, The House of a Thousand Candles' only claim to attention is Mr. Pichel's sinister smile, which remains upon his face as if carved there, from the first reel to the last, giving to an otherwise somewhat episodic narrative a comforting if not entirely reasonable continuity. Typical shot: Pichel, as he smiles, patting a carrier pigeon which he calls...
...program is further embellished by an extremely well photographed reel entitled "Swiss on White," featuring a striking exhibition of figure skating by the famous Sonja Heuie. In addition several good shots of other winter sports are shown...
...summary of the editorial would be that your "March of Time" reel is not in any sense facts, that it is pure propaganda, that it is plainly false propaganda, that you accepted Russian films without satisfying yourself as to their authenticity...