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With Bow & Arrow. Out of his original 80,000 feet, Queeny already has finished a second film, a two-reeler on the ancient music of a tribe in Uganda, near Lake Victoria. He plans a feature-length "fantasy" showing how the Wakamba tribe hunts elephants with bow & arrow, another two-reeler about a strange signaling bird that leads natives to caches of honey, and possibly still another feature on the safari itself. Beyond that, Queeny wants to ride his hobby on another expedition. "I don't know yet where it will be," he says. "It will be some place...
...Warners scored such a box-office smash that they were able to make a film of their own in 1912, a three-reeler titled Perils of the Plains. "Just like The Covered Wagon," says Harry, "except we used three wagons and they used 300." By making $3 do the work of $300, the brothers gradually expanded moviemaking, struck it rich with such stars as John Barrymore (The Sea Beast, Beau Brummel...
...most effective documentaries of World War II, a two-reeler called The Pale Horseman, was still going begging last week. Movie audiences were seeing it in only a few of the nation's big & little picture palaces...
...year-old Chamorro told a story that had all the melodrama of an oldtime cowboy-and-Indian two-reeler. The better-looking girls, she said, had to take turns going to the Jap officers' camp to cook-and "for other things." Her turn was due, she said, "the day the Americans came-just in time...
...modest educational two-reeler, bearing the portentous title To the People of the United States, caused a row last fort night. Its subject: syphilis. Object: to help prevent the disease, by telling the facts...