Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest ambition is to make my mother happy. I will not go on the stage or screen. Just a few weeks ago I saw a large city for the first time-Paris...
Cinema In Georovesti, Rumania, a cinema theatre was opened for the first time. Gaping peasants watched the screen, saw a locomotive hurtle towards them. Terrified, they stampeded, wrecked the building...
Charlie Chaplin does not choose to speak. A conservative at heart, despite his caperings, the first comedian of the screen has made his latest picture after the mute manner. One by one the advocates of silent acting have been coaxed by producers or brow-beaten by public taste into becoming articulate. The result has been trying. No longer need a person who lisps or has a major impediment in their speech worry about a vocation. They can now go into pictures. And if the infirmament is noticeable enough they are often whisked to stardom...
...Birmingham, England, a retired manufacturer made his will, had a talking picture made of himself reading it, selected the friends & relations who will be invited to witness it after his death. Seating arrangements are planned so that his image on the screen will speak to each individually as if in real life. His speech will begin: "Now that I am dead, I claim the right to speak to you impartially. ..." He will point out faults and virtues of one & all, concluding: "And now, my dear nieces, nephews and friends, I will bore you no longer. ... To save unpleasant lawsuits...
...sound proof room and sound apparatus to its equipment. The first talking picture to be made by the foundation was titled. "Three Centuries of Massachusetts." It was made under the direction of Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, of the department of History at Harvard, who appears on the screen on several occasions. The film traces the history of the state from its early colonial days--landing and settling of the Pilgrims--down to the present progressive Massachusetts with its large industries, automobiles, and airplanes...