Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...
...President of the Republic, sad-eyed M. Albert Lebrun, the Ambassadors and Ministers of the European States and the Papal Nuncio in his silk skirts gathered at the Sorbonne last week to see flicker and jiggle on a screen three strips of streaked and yellowed cinema film, each only three yards long...
...make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison produced a peep-show device into which one spectator could look at pictures which moved while an Edison phonograph talked. The Brothers Lumière produced at about the same time pictures thrown on a screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President...
Consequently, the story on the screen had to be in tune with our imagination. It had to satisfy our conceptions of these two men and yet possess actual reality. Since it accomplished this, we are thinking of attending "Mutiny on the Bounty" several times...
Many of the other characters, the shots of the Bounty under sail, and the land sets are deserving of commendation, but one could keep on for hours. The fact remains that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has brought a great tale of men against men to the screen just about as effectively as did Nordhoff and Hall in their vivid book. That is high tribute to Hollywood...