Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moving picture history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first of its kind ever prepared, has been completed by the University Film Foundation in collaboration with Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80 and will be shown for the first time to any audience in Symphony Hall on Monday evening, July 7. The film has been in preparation for over a year and is finished just in time for showing to Tercentenary audiences...
...reels. A score of means are used to introduce the various events. Animated maps, old cartoons, portraits, paintings, dramatization of the life of the times, are all employed to recall Massachusetts' history. And Professor Hart, whose works on American history are nationally famous, appears as the storyteller in the film, and in many sound sequences makes clear the historical significance of the various events...
...film is the product of the collaboration of all the historical societies of the state. The greatest emphasis is on the 17th century and the founding of the Bay Colony, on which all interest is centered this summer...
...fishing, and display of the triangular trade routes, the maritime struggles preceding the Revolution, and the events leading up to the civil strife are all unfolded in the pictures of the eighteenth century. The events of the Revolution and the leading figures in it are represented in the film, and the relation of Massachusetts to the founding of the national government is stressed...
...shorter subjects, there is a "Krazy Kat" film that lives up to the high standard that these black and white pictures have set in the realm of the talkies. The drawings and musical score are both lively and amusing. In fact it was the most hilarious part of the bill. The other contributions, unfortunately were as dull as ever, the booby prize going to a particularly annoying bit designed to show the beauties of the Sunny South. The final contribution was another so-called organologue, whose only apparent purpose was to make more vacant seats for the feature picture...