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...McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
North of 36. Like The Covered Wagon, it is a Western story; like The Covered Wagon, it employs Lois Wilson and Ernest Torrence for two of the leading players. Unlike The Covered Wagon, it employs cattle instead of prairie schooners; and again, unlike that extraordinary film, it fails notably to mix history and drama in the right proportions. The play is a saga of the cattlemen, a panorama of miles of prairie where trailed the endless herds of long horns. A villain?you know he is the villain because he shot an Indian girl while she was bathing...
...hand at the end they are still happy. "Isn't Life Wonderful!" cry they. Neil Hamilton and Carol Dempster (cf. America) have the parts. So telling are their portraits that the director must be further commended. As postscript to this tribute must be added the opinion that the film will not be popular. So taken are the masses with tinsel imitations that simple sincerity must necessarily be tasteless...
Sundown. The chief impression afforded by this film is that all the cows in the world were assembled. This bovine convention purports to be the "last great Western herd," driven from the ranges by the squatter settlers, on its way to wider grazing lands in Mexico. In other words, the twilight of the old West. The idea and the purpose were commendable but the endless appearances of thousands of cows simply became monotonous. Woven roughly into the migration was the love story of the head cowboy and a girl whose cabin on the plains was wrecked in a stampede...
...device used for the sending was similar to that used last May for transmitting pictures by telephone (TIME, June 2). It consisted of a cylinder in which a photographic negative is placed. A beam of light strikes the cylinder which slowly rotates. Passing through the film it activates a photo-electric cell. The cell gives out electrical impulses in proportion to the strength of the light that filters through the film. The gradations of these electrical impulses are very delicate. If put upon the air, static would greatly interfere with them. Instead they are stored until a given amount...