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Married. Cineproducer Hal Roach, 50, originator of "Our Gang" comedies, now a major in the Army, and Miss Lucille Prin, 29, former ASCAP secretary; at Dayton...
Veteran Hollywood Producer Hal Roach was ordered to active duty as a major in the photographic division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps...
...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...