Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serge Eisenstein, Russian motion picture director whose productions have secured for him world-wide recognition, will lecture Monday evening in the Baker Library of the Harvard Business School. The distinguished film producer, who is making his first visit to America, is giving a few lectures at colleges and universities of the East, and when at 8 o'clock Monday he speaks on "The Cinema as an Art," members of the University will be afforded a rare opportunity to hear a man whose brilliant career has brought him to the peak...
Although the acts transmitted by television suffered most of the defects of the early moving pictures, in that they were lacking the depth and detail of a film picture, and the image had an occasional tendency to rock from side to side, all shades of the photograph were present, and the sound synchronism was perfect. Perfection of this science is no thing of the distant future, as is shown by the fact that Dr. Alexanderson is soon to study practical conditions for the realization of some of his ideas at the invitation of the Navy...
Also the scenery and background are unusual: a sumptuous night club, sentimental ballads, whizzing taxicabs with mounted machine guns, desperados infesting the family entrance of the night club, cruel hardboiled policemen and imported dialogue consisting of "coppers," "rackete" "third-degrees" and the rest. This film is entirely different from anything the movies have yet done but its novelty is unimpressive. The vaudeville filling in the bill represents the only logical reason yet discovered for the creation of the "talkies...
...Countries. Latin America bought more U. S. film last year than Europe, but Latins are getting more and more excited about the "invasion of English language talkies." Today the study of English is compulsory in Chilean schools, but last week a writer in the authoritative monthly Chile warned that "a reaction" (by Chileans against talkies in English) "may lead to total exclusion and even reflect back on the teaching of English in the schools...
...being able to make the stars who work for him perform brilliantly even when they have given no previous indication of brilliance. After bossing Gloria Swanson in her most recent and best picture The Trespasser, he has done an even more painstaking job for Nancy Carroll, whose previous film experience has embraced few parts more taxing than the leads in Honey and Sweetie. In The Demi's Holiday she plays a little adventuress who, in cahoots with a salesman of farm equipment, sets about fascinating the respectable son of a rich farming family. From the Chicago hotel where their meeting...