Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Danger Lights (RKO). For this first important release to be made with the new Spoor-Berggren wide film (TIME, Sept. 1). RKO has shrewdly chosen a story about railroading which gives the cameramen a chance to show the versatility of the new film by photographing locomotives from many angles. The big film seems exactly like other wide films; its mechanical grandeur, the magnified screen and the magnified size of everything thereon, are exciting and worthwhile, but not revolutionary. The story is the sort in which the district superintendent rescues an engineer from a drunken stupor by reminding him that lives...
Sous les Toits de Paris (Film Sonora Co.). This pleasant little film in French is arranged according to the 1928 formula of U. S. talking pictures - a formula which the French, like other European producers, have recently become able to imitate successfully. A theme song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...
Sole national competitors to the Exhibitors Herald-World (circ. 12,000, more than blanketing the 9,500 owners of U. S. pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
...conglomeration of five titles he will publish two: Motion Picture Herald (weekly) and Motion Picture Daily. Also he will establish a Hollywood daily, thus relegating Film Daily to the status of a local New York paper. The merged properties were valued at $2,000,000, the Herald-World accounting for one-half...