Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Fawcetts frankly admit that Whiz Bang was the foundation of their prosperous publishing business, they deplore the fact that they seldom are publicly identified with the respectable magazines of their group, such as The Amateur Golfer & Sportsman, Screen Play, Modern Mechanics & Inventions. Few months ago they acquired Screen Book, disposed of by the Mackinnon-Fly Publications. They cut its price from 25? to 10?, boosted its circulation from 100,000 to 300,000. Next year they will offer Mechanical Package Magazine, each copy of which will be delivered in a box containing also the parts of some mechanical...
...cinemataphotography, pictures flash on the screen at the rate of 960 per minute...
...chapel and choir will be situated at the east end of the building, and will be separated from the nave by a wooden screen. Daily services will be held in this smaller section. On Sundays the services will be conducted from the nave, while the choir will be behind the screen. The narthex, or memorial room, will be separated by two doors from the body of the chapel...
There is always something futile in seeing a magician perform on the screen. The audience knows it must be trick photography and wistfully thinks how it would like to see a woman's head cut off by a real conjurer. Thus, the introduction of an atmosphere of mystery by the medium of a sorcerer's performance lacks effectiveness. Grim closeups, however, may be had in profusion and the speaker's lines are often more effective over a machine of pre-determined volume than when spoken on a stage. These, at least, are compensating factors...
Like many other stage plays converted to the screen, this production has a vigorous, staccato dialogue to atone for its lack of pictorial beauty. The smaller parts are on the whole excellently played. We like particularly Oscar Apfel as Editor Hinchcliffe. He regarded the words "scandal", "sex", and "sensational" with squeamishness; preferred saying "human interest...