Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photographing thq rebounding X-rays in such fashion that the wavelength change could be exactly measured. The value of their work lay in its measuring electrons bound in atoms. An older method measures velocities of free electrons by use of an electric field, a magnetic field and a fluorescent screen.* Such methods disclose that some electrons move as slowly as 1% (within beryllium) the speed of light and others as swiftly as 90% (radium's Beta particles) light's speed. Light is known to travel (until Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, who last week was in a serious nervous...
...will ever be really important in the sound picture, but in combination with visual forms it still has far to go. What the movies need now, which the filming of "Oedipus Rex" should illustrate, is the development of an art and technique peculiarly suited to the medium of the screen. Chaplin has worked out one type of movie style, the silhouette is another, but in most cases movies are but literal translations of an art which is at its best in the theater...
Opera, as opera, will probably not be successful on the screen. In Stravinsky's work however, where super-marionettes are used in place of men and the parts are carefully subordinated to the whole effect, lies a possible opening for the motion picture. It is not the content which matters so much in this case as the creation of an art built for the movies which will combine the elements of music and stage in a new way., Mickey Mouse has successfully done this for comedy and it should be possible to do the same type of thing for great...
...songs. Baritone Ivan Ivantzoff (Wozzeck) sometimes spoke, sometimes sang his lines. Soprano Anne Roselle (Marie, Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town all angles and planes...
...Smith was discouraged by the discovery that there were only 38 theatres in the U. S. sufficiently cheap, small and well-situated to be incorporated into a news-theatre chain. He therefore investigated the possibilities of Trans-Lux projection, found that by projecting from behind the screen he could make miniature movie theatres out of small stores and offices at nominal cost. All Trans-Lux theatres will have big comfortable chairs, rows far enough apart for patrons to sit with their legs crossed. They will be too well lighted for the operations of leg-pinchers and knee-rubbers, who make...