Word: screen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Objects fairly leapt from the screen as the Engineering Society viewed three-dimensional color movies at a meeting in Pierce Hall last night. The effect of these pictures was so realistic that onlookers had the sensation of gazing at a scene through a window rather than seeing a picture projected on a screen...
Tommy's screen debut cost Producer Selznick $1,250,000. Of this, Tommy's share was $100 weekly. To his father, Michael Aloysius Kelly, Tommy's good fortune meant relief at last from the difficulties of supporting a family on a WPA salary; to Tommy it meant at first more excitement than he had ever dreamed of. His supporting cast was a group of typical Hollywood child players-Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher), Jackie Moran (Huck), David Holt (Sid Sawyer), Marcia Mae Jones (Mary Sawyer), Mickey Rentschler (Joe Harper). Least professional of the lot Tommy's performance...
...length of a feature itself." Motion Picture Herald's Martin Quigley, Johnny-one-note of the trade press, was plaintively sarcastic: "This industry is going to be fixed up fine," wrote he, "when all the experts get through -making it safe for babies, supplying adult education on the screen and carrying the messages of the assorted propagandists. After all those functions are served the subject of entertainment can be considered." In Chicago independent theatres had a different answer. They promptly abandoned double bills, began showing triple features...
...movie, however, gives nothing new to the screen, and it fails to realize the many advantages the screen has over the stage. The directing therefore seems amateurish as far as modern technique is concerned...
...over fifteen minutes the fire rages on the screen, and when it is over the audience is exhausted from the emotional experience it has undergone...