Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accomplishing one of the most outstanding feats of modern news reel photography. Paramount Sound News brings to the screen the complete record of the recent Hindenburg disaster. The film shows the giant dirigible slowly lowering over the field at Lakehurst when everything seemed to be in perfect order. The sudden mass of flames, which enveloped it spread over the entire area of the ship with incredible rapidity...
...elaborate entertainment, which included in its cast outstanding personalities of the radio, screen and sports world, was arranged by a large committee under the direction of John F. Kennedy '40. This was greeted by an often enthusiastic audience which smoked and consumed the traditional corncob pipes, cigarettes, ginger ale, doughnuts, and ice cream. Kennedy also acted as master of ceremonies...
...does differ-as Esther Blodgett is supposed to differ from her competitors-in essentials. Trenchantly directed by William Wellman who, with Robert Carson, conceived the story from which Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell wrote the screen play, handsomely photographed in the Technicolor which its producer, David Oliver Selznick, is pioneering with increasingly fortunate results, it emerges as a brilliant, honest and unfailingly exciting picture which, in the welter of verbiage about Hollywood heretofore contributed by stage and screen, stands as the last word and the best...
...Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles and his glowering pressagent (Lionel Stander), they are definitely the former...
...jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine to an appropriately exhibitionistic suicide, leaving Esther to a Hollywood funeral in which an admirer steals her veil...