Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...When a film is developed, silver atoms clump together in tiny islands. It used to be assumed that these clumps were a grainy, cokelike mass. It was just an assumption, because no ordinary microscope could penetrate the clumps. In the Eastman laboratories, Researcher C. E. Hall made electron pictures magnifying the silver islands 25,000 times. Then it was seen that they were composed of tangled, thin strands of silver, some of them only a few atoms thick. "The developed grains," said Dr. Mees. "resemble masses of seaweed rather than coke...
...when it comes down to producing a show that means something, that packs a punch, Hollywood must go back to its source material, life itself, and reproduce it faithfully. Masters of reality are Playwright Eugene O'Neil and Director John Ford of "The Informer." Together they have created a film of the voyage of a tramp steamer from the West Indies to England, a film which, in all sincerity, is a work of art, as photography, as directing, as acting, as literature...
Along with the same scholarly material, the Library is also storing in Central Europe files of newspapers, which normally would be photographed at the Library on micro-films. In 1938, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Library began micro-film files of some thirty-five newspapers in all parts of the world. The film records are available at cost to other libraries desiring them...
...performers occupied between numbers, Producer Zanuck treats it like an ugly stepchild. Its principal function is to present the cheesecake of the cast-blonde, lethargic Alice Faye and blonde, lithe Betty Grable-as the sister act of Katie and Lily Blane. Capitalizing on their more obvious assets, the film sets Alice and Betty wriggling and crooning in cellophane hula skirts and harem costumes. Clearly neither of the girls cares to hand over the picture to the other, and their artistic competition results in a standoff. Miss Faye, now somewhat more mature than Miss Grable, has the better voice; Miss Grable...
Jack Oakie and Borden Dairy's glamour cow, Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...