Word: reelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film the tattered, bloody sailors leaving the ship, peer into the gaping holes in the Panay's armor, sweep over decks strewn with wreckage. Movietone's nine-minute release concentrates on the hardship of the survivors' overland escape to safety. Universal's 23-minute three-reeler also gives shots of sacked and burning Nanking...
...Movietone's "Magic Carpet" and "Adventures of a Newsreel Cameraman," the cinema MARCH OF TIME was hailed enthusiastically by cinema critics, dubiously by the industry. Currently, its audience appeal wholly vindicated by its influence on other newsreels as well as by its popularity, the monthly two-reeler, distributed by RKO, is being shown in 7,560 U. S., 1,247 British Isle, 485 Australian and New Zealand and 750 Spanish-speaking theatres. Next month THE MARCH OF TIME will move into its own three-story Manhattan building. Last week's award coincided with MARCH OF TIME...
Having completed last year an experimental two-reeler, La Cucaracha (which grossed $350,000), the Whitneys held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
...jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried a tea tray for Sessue Hayakawa, did a bit in a Lon Chancy picture, played in a Hal Roach two-reeler, acted with Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad. She got an even better chance to exhibit her ability in a German picture called-but not in her honor-Tsong, Tsong (1928) was widely successful, made Anna May Wong a celebrity in Europe and especially in London where her social...
...which ran a story's thread. From Russia have come nonfictional propaganda pictures (Turksib, Ten Days That Shook the World). The War Department and private producers have shown War films (Powder River, The Big Drive), and before that Emanuel Cohen of Pathe News exhibited a three-reeler called Flashes of the Past. Such was the meagre history of the non-fiction film field until last week, when Frederick Ullman Jr., of Pathe and Writer Gilbert Seldes (The Seven Lively Arts) showed This Is America to an enthusiastic audience in Manhattan. This Is America is calculated to help satisfy...