Word: screening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Eleanore Whitney, 21, pretty stage-&-screen tap dancer; and Frederick Backer, 29, former Assistant U. S. Attorney; in Manhattan...
...picture is conceived in the story department, goes through a period of gestation, has labor pains in the photographic room, and comes to life on the screen. But it is the animator who endows the picture with its life spirit," Feild stated...
...Meredith, in regard to your screen production of 'Winterset,' what...
Made for Each Other (United Artists-David Selznick) starts with a printed announcement on the screen: "Greater New York has a population of 7,434,346, among the least important of whom is. . . ." The camera cuts to a page of the Manhattan Telephone Directory and telescopes down on the name of "John Mason, lawyer." The opening action shot then shows Mason (James Stewart) pausing on his way to work to examine something he is carrying-a cabinet-size photograph of his wife (Carole Lombard...
...July 1936, when Pius XI praised the Catholic Legion of Decency for its good work in helping to clean up the U. S. cinema industry, most cinemaddicts were inclined to agree with him. Since then, U. S. cinema censors have grown bold enough to be a nuisance. Primary screen censor is the Hays organization in Hollywood, which has an elaborate code explaining what kind of pictures producers may or may not make. Secondary screen censors are State and municipal boards which, even when the Hays organization has passed a picture, can forbid its showing. Last week, the New York State...