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...even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which the audience has crected its small hairs in horror. But with the possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney Island bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder, and all gangmen and impulsive female murderesses will be confined either to the screen...
Deported are spotty, flickering pictures. Gone are the five-minute waits while the operator pasted together broken film. Gone are the pendent curls of the ingenue. The two-reel love dramas have suffered a final fadeout...
...Bill Poster. An amazing one-reel Hal Roach comedy, guaranteed to take the taste of almost any super-super-super-feature out of one's mind without pain...
...eight inches south of the boundary between New York and Canada. Eight inches north of the line a box was set up, and an original positive film of the fight pictures was run off through the box in front of an electric light. The camera and Canadian reel were so turned that an exact negative reproduction of the film was made. It was later rephotographed and a positive film was obtained for exhibition. It was argued that nothing was imported except rays of light, but the Federal Courts made short work of the argument...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES?Hollywood and its lovely morons spitted upon a rapier of keen satire, in this history of Merton, the grocery-clerk, who dreamed of being an eight-reel-tragic-feature-film and woke to find himself the most popular low comedian in America...