Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calcutta, put 146 English prisoners into a dungeon, 18 ft. by 14 ft., with two small windows. After one night in the dungeon, all but 23 of the prisoners were dead. The shot of the Black Hole of Calcutta in Clive of India cost $30,000, stays on the screen for 15 seconds...
...Conrad Veidt in four different makeups, representing four phases of the tedious life of that legendary Jew who made one of the worst guesses on record. In Jerusalem, Veidt is a rich Jew with a sick wife whom he asks Christ to heal. To his vexation the Messiah (off screen) suggests that he return the woman to the man from whom he stole her. As Christ goes to be crucified, the Jew curses and spits at Him. Condemned to wander the earth, Veidt next turns up during the Crusades. He jousts with one knight, attempts to seduce another...
...only charges $25 to copy a book of 200 pages; and if one has a moving picture projector it is possible to buy rolls of film of such books for only $5. The only disadvantage of the second method is that the book must be read from the screen while the former process results in a handy volume of only three times the thickness of the original which is, of course, easily protable. About 14,000 feet of film is used each year in the studio...
That Westerns seldom appear now at large first-run theatres by no means indicates that they are obsolete. A dozen producing companies subsist upon profits from such pictures. B 'n' B, Ambassador, Exploitation, Golden State, Willis Kent, Principal, Stage & Screen, William Steiner and Superior together have 80 on their 1934-35 schedules. Less in demand west of the Mississippi. Westerns are greedily patronized in the South. They are particularly popular in Washington, D. C. Outstanding producer of Westerns, Monogram will make eight this year, 16 next-mostly on a ranch belonging to Trem Carr, the studio...
...mingling and exhibitions of naked men and women. If such action is not an offense against public decency, this league will ask the Legislature to speedily remedy this defect in the law and make it so. It seems to us inconsistent to take a stand for decency on the screen and ignore this latest challenge to the enforcement of decency in reality, We cannot overlook indecency in the substance while condemning it in the shadow...