Word: reels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reel film portraying activities in the Harvard Botanical Garden in Cuba, one of the most distant outposts of the University, has just been released by the University Film Foundation. The picture, which was made possible by the generosity of Mrs. E. F. Atkins of Belmont who financed the expedition, was photographed by W. O. Field '26 and directed by Professor Oakes Ames...
...Electric Welding in Modern Industry", a three reel film presented by the Clark Electric Company of Cleveland, will be shown under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society at 12 o'clock today in Pierce 110. The public is invited...
...maiden, name, as the family surname and altered Gladys to "Mary." In 1909, D. W. Griffith was looking for someone to play Pippa in Pippa Passes when, having interviewed Mary Pickford, he said, "That girl would be a pip as Pippa." From $40 per week in one-reel Biograph features, she advanced, first under Griffith, then with other companies, to $2,000 a week in 1915, when she was called the highest salaried woman in the world. Now, married to Douglas Fairbanks, she makes .over $1,000,000 per annum and makes special trips to Washington about her income...
Following a most rapidly moving opening reel in which the scene shifts from an Indian reservation to a co-ed college and thence to a tribal village in Arizona in less than ten minutes, the picture then slows to an annoying pace. Even the Indian war dance and struggles atop high precipices fail to arouse the average movie goer. A climax in which the hero races a Ford containing two cheating palefaces is replete with all the nonsensical devices which made the western serial thrill of 10 years ago pass into bad repute...
...Cambridge of the official motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale football game. These films, which show practically a complete play-by-play account of the game, were made by the Harvard Athletic Association. They were shown for the first time at the football dinner last night. A two-reel comedy is an added feature of the program...