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...Cinema Academy is its special award for an "outstanding contribution to the industry." Awarded only when the Special Award Committee feels that there has been a contribution outstanding enough to deserve it, the prize has been presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated...
Warner Brothers and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has contributed a number of the prints now on display in the Theatre Room. Scenes shown vary from the crude efforts of the Mary Pickford-Charlie Chaplin era to extravaganzas like "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Here Comes the Fleet...
...same year Paris dadaists gave a "Festival" in the respectable Salle Gaveau Concert Hall. The program bore the announcement: "Personal Appearance of Charlie Chaplin. The dadaists will pull their hair out in public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building...
...motor maker but a Labor sympathizer once described Detroit as a "workingman's paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time is liberal...
...cinema companies. His sure-fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds dropped to 80. In 1931 Bank of America National Association, into which the East River Bank had grown, was absorbed by Manhattan...