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Throughout the film, there is a foreign touch of carefully planned artistry o both a musical and a scenic nature which cannot fail to please the jaded palate of one who has seen too many of the American efforts. In directing their production, there has been no attempt made to have actresses with poor voices assail the higher ranges of the diatonic scale, as all the singing is done with a thought for beauty to tone and cadence. Abounding in music, which although not great, is yet of a high character, the directors have handled their sound effects with complete...

Author: By P. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/5/1931 | See Source »

...Rejected by the unanimous vote of its Foreign Relations Committee a treaty with Canada for scenic preservation at Niagara Falls because of its private water power provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Clock | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...other feature pictures except that artists and an art-process take the place of actors. First, in the Walt Disney studios in Hollywood a "gag" meeting is held, ideas talked over, roughly outlined. Scenario writers compose a regulation script; adapters break it down into sequences, scenes, shots. The scenic department designs the background. Then three kinds of artists begin to work: 1) "animators" who sit at two long rows of specially made desks and work by light that streams through a central glass. They develop the gags, draw only the beginning and the end of an action. Their sketches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Regulated Rodent | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Chaplin does not reject the sound-device because he does not think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art. Says he: "Action is more generally understood than words. Like the Chinese symbolism it will mean different things according to its scenic connotation. Listen to a description of some unfamiliar object-an African wart hog, for example. Then look at a picture of the animal and see how surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Passed a bill reserving for public use the scenic rocks, pinnacles, reefs and small islands on the coast of Orange County, Calif., sent it to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Clock | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

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