Word: silhouets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts are slit to the ankle or a little higher. ¶ Colors either match...
...over his eyes, a young Spanish Republican swaggered down Madrid's Broadway, the noisy Calle de Alcala. Before the 17th Century Calatravas Church, he stopped. Its soft slate façade was a mass of scrawled inscriptions and caricatures. One he had never noticed before, a silhouet of a man with a large hooked nose and protruding...
...armor and the spot where Anne Boleyn lost her head. Playing up the mysterious Prisoner for all he was worth, London's Daily Express printed a picture showing Tower Green packed with spectators gawking at a tall soldierly figure in a Glengarry bonnet, inked out in silhouet. Even more tickets were sold at the news that the face under the Glengarry bonnet was young and good looking...
...lovers talking in bed in a scene in which you see only the wall which they must see from the head of the bed; the Zeppelin raid on London with the sirens hooting and fast cars placarded TAKE COVER roaring through the streets; the scene- presented entirely in shadow silhouet, from the doorway of the room-in which Miss Bennett finds her baby dead. But as an emotional actress Constance Bennett is still merely a big-eyed young woman with a husky, well-schooled voice, who wears clothes nicely and is well-poised at all times. Best shot: a London...
...University Film Foundation). Making a film puppet-show is even more complicated than making an animated cartoon. This one, though lighted so as to give the effect of a silhouet, is three dimensional. The figures had to be drawn, then cut out of cardboard and sheet-lead, then articulated so that they could move. A German designer, Mrs. Lotte Reiniger, working with Walter Ruttmann (who made for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari expressionistic sets never surpassed in the cinema) spent three years on The Adventures of Prince Achmed. The story is tenuous. Achmed makes love, goes to war, combats...