Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
...except the chastity of Miss Tala Birell. Not that anything is wrong, but the tone of voice in which (though it is to save Bellamy) she agrees to go away for a weekend with one of the villains is amazingly casual, nor is this all. Hardly a reel later she accepts with even more alacrity a similar invitation from Bellamy (to whom she is not married) in a scene for which the reporter (Victor Kilian) supplies the fade-out gag. He gives a musical cigaret case to Bellamy with a line to the effect that the possibilities of the trip...
...spot newsreel views of the current week. Results were disappointing, largely because in many cases library clips were mere flashes of persons and events. Then the editors decided to adapt The March of Time radio technique of re-enacting such scenes as were needed. First experimental dummy reel was completed last August, showing such subjects as the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Hindenburg, U. S. midshipmen cheering the Pope. Three more dummies were made, tested on cinema audiences by "sneak" previews. By October the editors had made two important discoveries...
...Horizon, Cinematographer Clardy presented the life of a farm girl at a moment of crisis. One reel, almost without titles, tells the story of her efforts to marry the man she loves in spite of her father's opposition which keeps her chained to the farm. Okamoto's heroine was a Japanese girl making a doll as a birthday present for a friend. Pictorial values, backgrounds of the Japanese countryside in spring, and the delicate grain which Cinematographer Okamoto had achieved gave his film distinction. Both winners last week used 8 mm. film. Clardy's camera...
...Rabkin is president and owner of International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc. The company was founded in 1895 to make peep shows of girls going to bed, the cook kissing the policeman and little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph...