Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...release of four films, which have just been completed this fall and two of which will have their first Boston showing on December 9 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, were announced yesterday at the University Film Foundation. These are part of a series demonstrating the Arts and produced for the Art Museum...
Harold Lloyd in his second talkie, now showing at the Uptown theatre, has escaped the clutches of the Chinese who afforded him so few breathing spells in his first effort, and has returned to the human fly stunts of "Safety Last," his most successful silent film. This time the thrills are even more sensational and apparently more daring...
Harold Lloyd leases his studios and has a complete staff of film-makers on his payroll. Paramount merely distributes his films. It took him four months to make the skyscraper shots in Feet First. Nobody doubles for him in high places. He uses fewer twin-exposure shots than most skeptics would suppose. He is an athletic young man and keeps himself in shape on the private golf course, tennis courts, handball courts, and in the gymnasium of his expansive house. When he is making a climbing comedy his only protection is a platform with mattresses on it, built out from...
What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
...been having brilliant ideas. More than 1,000 of them have been patented. Swivel chairs, men's belts, carburetors have benefited from his inventions. And inventors are still spurred on by the memory of the $300,000 George Eastman paid Inventor Gaisman in 1914-for his writing-on-film patent. But his most profitable inventions have been in the razor field. He has created processes for making blades, has designed blades and razors. In 1906 he founded AutoStrop Safety Razor Co. which soon became important in the industry. Its chief product was the Valet AutoStrop Razor. For years...