Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could hope to reproduce. No empty shells tacked up on a sound stage, the castles of Windsor and Balmoral, the palaces of Buckingham and St. James's (to whose interiors the King gave Director Wilcox and his company access) look as substantial as their own walls and superb Technicolor film can make them...
Died. Lieutenant Lansing C. ("Denny") Holden, 42, famed World War flying ace. soldier of fortune, archeologist, architect and Technicolor expert; when a New York National Guard plane crashed near Sparta, Tenn. Also killed in the crash was another famed War flier, Lieutenant Raymond W. Krout...
...With Wings (Paramount) is the first Technicolor picture with an aeronautical background. It is also the first picture with an aeronautical background that attempts to take the long view of flying, not as hazardous profession or exciting adventure but as the latest and most spectacular chapter in the long history of transport. Starting with the Wright Brothers' first, incredible, 59-second hop, Men With Wings proceeds, with great pictorial beauty and praiseworthy attention to authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...
Paramount and Fenway are showing a Technicolor "triumph" called "Valley of the Giants", which is overshadowed by the entertaining second feature, "Time Out for Murder", starring Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen. The Fine Arts is continuing for the eighteenth week "Moonlight Sonata", which has the disadvantage of being an English film but the more than compensating advantage of Paderewski. Across from the Yard in Harvard Square the University in featuring "The Texans", a mediocre Paramount picture with Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott, and Stuart Erwin in "Passport Husband." Sunday will bring Harold Lloyd's decrepit but still amusing "Professor Beware...