Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Youngson received a prize of $50 for his film entitled "Smoke Dreams," adjudged the best amateur 16 millimeter film submitted. Bruce L. Greiner, of the Law School, was runner-up with a four-reel color film dealing with a lumber camp...
...attractive girl who are mutually repelled at first glance, then forced by circumstances to pretend they are man & wife. To their embarrassment and their fiances' annoyance, they endure congratulations, pet publicly, share the same lodgings. Their sleeping quarters are, of course, conspicuously separate. In the last reel, habit having dulled discernment, they marry...
...slot game. It had several names (Keeney, Sky Fighter, Sky Pilot), but the fun of all was to aim an imitation machine gun, pull a trigger, try to shoot down a darting, fugitive image of an airplane. "No wonder players insert coin after coin-" exulted International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc., in a broadside extolling its Sky Fighter. "It's that 'trigger-finger' itch that everyone...
Here, sighed the Vagabond to himself, if surely a small bit of France transplanted to American soil. He gazed about him wonderingly. He had just emerged from the auditorium of the Geographical Institute where a militaristic French movie and a super-patriotic news reel--both entertaining after a fashion--had been shown. Through the doors poured dual streams of middle-aged Cambridge matrons, Mutt-and--Jeff pairs of Radcliffe girls, a sprinkling of Brattle Street subdebs, some dapper, be-mustached French instructors, and a handful of Harvard men. The latter seemed like some of Thurber's male animals...
...Year hit Hollywood like the last reel of a badly directed thriller. More denouements crowded into the private lives of the cinema colony than had been furnished by any seven days in a twelvemonth. There were one natural, one sudden death, an elopement, a surprise marriage, a bill of divorce, a last testament. In nearly every case the event stirred memories of old, unhappy, far-off things and litigation...