Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Last week the William Fox cinema enterprise, minus William Fox (TIME, April 21), at last announced the financing plan which was belatedly to pay for the great Fox expansion of 1929. It provided, essentially, that Fox Film should sell to General Theatres Equipment, Inc. 1,600,000 shares of (new) Class A at $30 a share, and should also issue one-year 6% notes for $55,000,000. These two transactions, totalling $103,000,000, would leave the Fox Companies well supplied with, funds. Furthermore the bankers (who included both the Fox and the anti-Fox factions in the late...
With new financing came new directors. On the Film Board, William Fox himself was a holdover, as were anti-Fox directors Winfield Sheehan and Saul E. Rogers, general counsel. But gone were Fox-Brother Aaron Fox, Fox-cousin Charier Levin. Fox-brother-in-law Jack Leon...
...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...