Word: film
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merger is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U.S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky...
...treasures, carefully stored at Buckingham Palace, is a color film of Their Majesties' Coronation, in 1910. Since direct color cinemas could not be taken, at that time. every one of the tens of thousands of film photographs was colored by hand, by patient Germans...
Mimographer Shaw is a cinemactor, yet no cinemactor, no cinemactress has so ably combined appearance with utterance as have Jolson, Benchley, Shaw. Jolson, of course, is the lone member of the trio who has gone to any film length and observers noted that neither of his two operas (The Jazz Singer, The. Singing Fool) has been all-talk. Both have been all-sound. If Jolson, whose singing can lift a drooping piece, has not been permitted to do an all-talk piece, it is obvious that a lesser player, unable to break into song, must falter when the piece itself...
...deal is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U. S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. While their sound picture rival, Fox Film (with Movietone) has customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it was, of strange and jealous exhibitors. With Stanley Co. it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers− Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...
...Pont. Somebody in recent stock trading days has been buying Paramount-Famous-Lasky stock. That somebody, it became clear last week, was affiliated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which among its multifarious investments controls Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Co. (Eastman Kodak rival). So the inference gained credence in Wall Street that du Fonts would soon be on Paramount-Famous-Lasky's directorate...