Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...realm of entertainment, its first love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...
...claimed that the true contribution of the motion picture to civilization is as another tool of Science. Certainly, the movie as an academician has had some degree of success in the field of Geology, Physics and Biology. The suggestion, elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, of Professor Friedrich that the film has a rightful place in Social Science offers, perhaps, the soundest application yet conceived of the invention. As he says, actual sight and sound of legislative' bodies in action would add tremendous vitality to the sometimes deadened lectures concerning those parliaments. Professor Friedrich's proposal, if carried out, should undoubtedly...
...filming of political bodies in action such as the League of Nations or election meetings would vitalize instruction in the Social Sciences," declared C. J. Friedrich, assistant professor of Government yesterday in discussing the League of Nations film shown Tuesday night in Dunster House...
...League of Nations film would have been much better if it had been made into a talkie," he continued. "Its real scientific value was slight, and if some of the scenery had been cut out and more about the League itself shown, he film would have been improved from an educational point of view. I understand, though, that it would be quite difficult to show the League in action while an important meeting was in session...
Married. Lee De Forest, 57, electrical inventor (pioneer in radio, sound cinema, television), uncle of Cinemactress Bebe Virginia Daniels; and Marie Mosquini, 41, oldtime comic-film actress, friend of Miss Daniels; secretly, two weeks ago, at Tia Juana, Mexico, a few days before the formalization of his divorce from the second Mrs. De Forest, Singer Mary Mayo of Manhattan...