Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the exhibition, a tube in the television apparatus became overheated. It was necessary to wait 15 min. while it cooled off. Actors Tone and Barker were then seen and heard. What they said was clearly audible but their faces flickered vaguely on the screen; it was hard to tell which was which and what they were doing. Later, a Central American parrot was somewhat more successfully televised, screeching hoarsely at mention of Prohibition. Theatre-owner B. B. Moss made a speech explaining that the purpose of the performance was "to show the progress in television rather than...
John Barrymore's contract expired with this picture and has not yet been renewed. Warner Bros, had their profits from his activities on the screen enhanced by Barrymore's discovery of Marian Marsh. He chose her on the strength of an appearance which slightly resembles that of Mrs. John Barrymore (Dolores Costello) to play the lead in Svengali. Cinemactress Marsh did well enough to earn a long term contract; in her next picture, she will be the star...
...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
...Still another method is to take the separate views through light-polarizing camera lenses, throwing the combined scene on a special, non-diffusing screen, and viewing it with special glasses. This method too is impractical...
Moving pictures may be made through a similar screen. But the cameras must be run much faster than they now are. There must be many cameras focused on the same scene, and many projecting machines throwing the images on the screen. Screens must contain minute ridged reflecting and refracting elements of "extreme optical perfection," so that every person in the audience may see every aspect of the picture. Projection lenses must be of "extraordinary defining power." The films must run through the projectors with microscopic precision. Finally, if all the mechanical requirements are accomplished, there remains one more obstacle...