Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...
...Christmas night the annual "open house" will be kept at Phillips Brooks House, with a Christmas tree in the evening. Refreshments will be served, while H. W. Clark '23, secretary of the Alumni Association, will show the Harvard Film, a series of moving-picture snapshots conducted under the auspices of the Harvard Film Foundation...
...Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol was a crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant young actresses-Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Helen Twelvetrees. Last week for $5,000,000 Radio-Keith-Orpheum, lusty and successful young cinema company sponsored by great Radio Corp. of America, bought "certain assets...
Block Booking. For the past four or five years U. S. cinemagnates, combined as Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. (Will Hays, president), have striven to stabilize their industry. To this end they tried to make all theatre-owners contract for films-good or bad-a year ahead. This practice is called "block booking." To facilitate booking, block and "spot," the producers created 32 Film Boards of Trade. To these boards they gave powers of credit-approval. Into the contracts with theatre-owners they inserted a provision that, should credit disputes arise, Credit Committees of these boards might arbitrate...
...Last of the Wood Engravers" is the third of the recent Foundation films. It was produced to preserve and make available for posterity the extraordinary technique of Timothy Cole, last of the great wood engravers. His subject in this presentation is the EI Greco masterpiece, "Fray Feliz Hortensio", in the Boston Museum. The fourth of the productions of the Film Foundation is entitled "The Silversmith", an illustration of the technique of the art of the silversmith. It was produced through the cooperation of A. J. Stone, an outstanding worker in silver in this country...