Word: roach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series of memorable motion pictures with the "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," produced in 1906 and directed by Edwin S. Porter, in which Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings of satire with Buster Keaton's portrayal of the Robinson Crusoe of a machine wilderness. The Society has planned three more...
...Roach made Stevens a director (of shorts) in 1929. The 25-year-old cameraman was more than ready. An incident at Universal studios had revealed his true ambitions. The studio sent him upcountry to take some fast-action cattle shots for a Western. It was apple-blossom time and -to a man with an itch to direct-irresistible. When the studio ran the film, it was charmingly interspersed with tender shots of dropping apple blossoms. They almost...
...insect innards were revealed in photographs exhibited at the A.A.A.S. meeting by Zoologist Albert Glenn Richards Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania, and R.C.A.'s Thomas F. Anderson. Bugmen buzzed with delight at the spectacle of mosquitoes' windpipes, a butterfly's scale, a roach's cuticle...
Cinemaddicts who want to see Tanks will have to see it on a double bill. About half as long (50 minutes) as a standard feature picture, it was thought up by Producer Hal Roach as the answer to the double-feature exhibitor's prayer: a short feature to combine with a standard-length picture so that cash customers will still think they are seeing two pictures for the price of one and the exhibitor will be able to squeeze in an extra show...
This ruse, if successful, may end the curseworthy and costly double feature. For if movie audiences take to featurettes like Tanks (which is merely a stretched-out episode), they may be weaned down to one standard-length feature and an extra-large helping of good, inexpensive shorts. Producer Roach is so hopeful about his new "streamlined features" that he has made five of them, has another block of five on the fire...