Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eastman system (Kodacolor), exploited a month ago with appropriate ado (TIME, Aug. 6), uses a corrugated film. When projected upon a screen the pictures are excellent. But the screen may not be larger than 16½ by 22 in. If larger, the images show the corrugations of the film. And no copies of the film can be made...
...Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while the nightshirt was off and the day-shirt not yet on, one little concession was made to the King's privacy. Two valets held up the King's dressing gown as a screen...
...more or less transparent according to the light rays that come in. There is no color in the finished film. It is a pattern of various degrees of transparency and opaqueness. If run off in an ordinary projector, it would throw the ordinary black and white picture on the screen. But if the color filter is inserted, each minute transparent or opaque space on the film will be directed by the microscopic lenses through its own section of the color filter; falling upon the screen in its original color; producing the colored moving picture. The guests listened, looked, lauded Kodakman...
...fits, better than most, the gum-chewers' idea of a movie queen. They can call her a senorita because she has one-half Spanish blood in her. They can say she has famed "It" because she has often appeared on the screen without very many clothes (Male and Female). They can suspect her of fickle loves (Sprinter Charles Paddock). They know she is ath-a-let-tic by the way she bounces around on the screen. She may be classified somewhere between a capable actress and a capable clown...
...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...