Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentrated shooting from a squad. Emphasis, however, is placed on the scientific angles of crime detection, the long rooms of cross-indexed fingerprints and nicknames, the rows of white coated technicians and microscopes and test tubes. When it had to decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate and serviceable fingerprints...
...mechanical efficiency of the cinema industry, abroad as well as in the U. S., there are unhappy penalties. One is a reluctance to experiment. Author Leo Lapaire, after trying in vain to interest continental producers in his story, wrote the screen play himself, got Composer Anton Profes to write a brilliant score, organized his own company, paid his highly efficient actors with rights to share in the picture's profits. The Eternal Mask won a prize, for "originality of theme," at last summer's Venice Exposition. Last week, released in the U. S. with English subtitles...
...cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot: A radio dramatization of Taylor's arrest handled by Director Archie Mayo so that it becomes at once an effective story device and a parody on The March of Time...
Close on the pattering heels of advices from Hollywood that Freddie Bartholomew, precious duckling of the silver screen, may apply for admission to the college came ugly rumors yesterday that Shirley Temple, his constant rhumba companion at California hot-spots, may enter Radcliffe, an institution on Garden street...
...Fine Arts courses is obviously a vital necessity. When this feature of the classes is not handled properly the results may well be more than merely annoying. In Fine Arts le many complaints have been made because of the inefficiency of the technical assistants. Occasionally slides appear on the screen upside down or out of order, and time is wasted while the correction is made...