Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides their work on the "History of Massachusetts" film, the University Film Foundation is also the producer of the celluloid record of University life as made for the Harvard Alumni Association. Recent announcement of a similar work, to be carried on by Pathe under the direction of K. F. Mather, professor of Geology here, is of interest in the consideration of all the educational film production being carried on about the University...
...Hollywood producing companies print or develop their own films. They have such work done by the Consolidated laboratory, biggest company of its kind in the U. S. In bottle-like glass cases, side-by-side on long shelves resembling wine racks, the rolls of celluloid are kept like vintages. Some of those in the burned building were unreduplicable parts of pictures now in production-the whole negative of Jazz Heaven, two days work on Dance Hall, the complete negative of The Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary...
...Brooklyn, Herman Hintz, 63, school janitor, struck a match to light a cigar, ignited his celluloid collar, burned to death...
France and the U. S. made their celluloid peace last week. Arbitrators were Under Secretary Andre Francois-Poncet of the Ministry of Fine Arts and Harold L. Smith of Will Hays's Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. To the chief of the French Cinema Trust (Chambre Syndicale), industrious, scheming Jean Sapene, the peace was as distasteful as a hurtling Hollywood pie-in-the-face...
Author Hurst's latest contribution to the heterogeneous U. S. saga has to do mainly with a family of Raricks upon whom life brings many blessings in the shape of a chain of 5? & 10? stores. Little weazened Father Rarick acquires the happy faculty of buying hairnets and celluloid balls low and selling them higher builds a 79-story monument to himself, misunderstands his family. His pampered, poetical son, Avery, commits suicide at college because, "it was too much." Mother Rarick bitterly tries to suck romance out of a surreptitious affair with another woman's gigolo, Ramond...