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...difficulties of photographing musical comedies is that the camera's eye, when near enough to a chorus to show whether the girls are good looking or not, is only wide enough to take in five girls abreast. Another is that there is no adequate way of grading sounds so that the singing of the ensemble at the back of he stage will be less sonorous than that of the principals at the footlights. Another is that musical comedies depend for much of their effect on color, and color-production in cinemas has not yet been perfected even as well...
...after his wife's death that one of them was fathered by someone else. After thinking about it until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does not go into his mind but the action does. He and his son climb up a mountain. ... In the end Jannings does not put his scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another way. You may take exception to the scene on the mountain...
Walter Hagen's caddie was nearly blown off a green but Hagen sank his putt. A camera clicked when Leo Diegel was putting. He missed by a foot...
...third noon, a gust of wind blew away the Prime Minister's manuscript, and he not only chased after it but was stooping with his back to the camera when "Big Ben" began again, "Clang . . . clang . . . clang...
...Leatherneck (Pathe). This is a flashback melodrama of U. S. Marines in Eurasia. The complicated romance between the best-looking Marine and a Russian girl is so intelligently directed by Howard Higgin that at times you do not notice that the story is entirely pointless. Best shot: the camera moving from one face to another at a court-martial while a voice from an unseen source thunders accusations...