Word: chico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a full-length documentary film on Mexican animals, produced by Brothers Stacy & Horace Woodard, made the road runner-rattlesnake story a little less tall but no less telling. The Adventures of Chico shows 10-year-old Goatherd Chico taking his siesta, guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...
Brother Stacy Woodard, recently head photographer for Pare Lorentz' The River (TIME, Nov. 8), became interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...
...Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvin Douglas); Slim (Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda, Margaret Lindsay); A Day at the Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson...
...Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt); I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas); Slim (Pat O'Brien, Henry Fonda. Margaret Lindsay); A Day at the Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell...