Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow afternoon at 4.45 o'clock in Room 202 of the Zoological Laboratory, undergraduates will have their first chance to see a new film, the result of three months' labor on the part of R. H. Woodworth, instructor in Botany, assisted by the Harvard Film Foundation...
...film, called a photomicrograph, since it was taken through a microscope, portrays in greatly magnified form the complete life cycle of the Fucus Vesiculosus, that brown plant with the air filled bladders so often seen growing at the tide levels of rocky sea shores. Panoramic views of the habitat of the plant are shown first, followed by close up views of the plant as seen in everyday life. After these shots cross sections of various parts of the plant are shown revealing the organisms necessary for maintenance of life and the continuance of the plant...
...made views were all done in the laboratory. For this reason the work had to be carried on at night, since at no time in the day was the building quiet enough to permit the thin plates covered with the plant water to be free from ripples. Since the films were made between 1 and 3 o'clock in the morning, powerful lights were necessary to insure results on the movie film, and the lights, if not kept at a rigid brilliancy, killed the minute cell life under scrutiny...
...theme for a movie, not is it the best one that can be found these days, despite the seeming scarcity of good plots. If it isn't the plot that makes a movie good it is the actor--or actress. So it is with "The Divorcee", the current film at Loew's State...
...reveled in. In the Technicolor sets and the varied camera-shots the hand of the director and the essence of true cinema art may be discerned. The settings are artistically artificial, something entirely different from the lavish Ziegfeld decorations. They are the basis of the whole picture. Incidentally, the film does deserve a mood which is almost impossible to attain in the midst of a Sunday afternoon audience at the University. It should be seen on a week night. "The Rogue Song" is the best musical production Hollywood has as yet released...