Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...same time "Der Zerbrochener Krug" was announced by the Turmwacchter as the next German film to be shown at the University Theatre, on April 18. One of the four classical comedies of German literature, this involve will star Email Jannings. The admission fee of 25 cents entities say member of the University to see the main feature, "Rafflies," as well...
...little use in paint and varnish making because it was sticky and slow to dry. In recent years chemists have found that they could "dehydrate" castor oil (remove some of the chemical components in the form of water), leaving a pale oil which dries to a firm film, keeps its pale color even after long exposure. Experiments under way in Texas show that castor plants can be successfully grown...
Infra-red radiation tests show that dehydrated castor oil is a close chemical neighbor of tung oil, and, like tung oil, it yields a desirable, minutely wrinkled film when it dries. Some tung is produced in the U. S., but the vast bulk is still imported from the troubled Orient. Chemist John Carl Weaver of Sherwin-Williams Co. declared last week that dehydrated castor oil should help relieve the U. S. of dependence on foreign supplies not only of tung oil but of perilla and linseed oils as well...
Director Ernest Schoedsack, who co-produced manhunting King Kong, elephant-hunting Chang, achieved most of this picture's smooth Technicolored deceptions. Some were done by trick camera work and film processing. Some were done by using massive sets with doors 35 feet high, chairs and tables 12 to 15 feet high...
...film is less than that--it is a documentary masterwork, but it is not quite the call to militant action which the paper "Grapes" sounds. Casy's talkative moments are fewer, and though John Carradine acts him to a T, the preacher is a less significant figure in consequence. Ma Joad grows in stature in the movie at Casy's expense; the courage and family unity which she symbolizes replace his message as the central theme...