Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...astronomers." Last week the little planet (diameter 3,100 miles) was scheduled for a transit across the blazing face of the sun. From complicated formulas and tables, scientists had carefully determined the time. But when astronomers at Mt. Wilson's famed observatory shot the passage with motion-picture film synchronized with a clock, they found Mercury was 30 seconds late for its performance...
...dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about serious opposition for his job. After election, Hollywood awoke to find him replaced by a local Democratic attorney named John Dockweiler...
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer of Manhattan (the hero's name is Edgar) and animated by Horace L. Roberts Jr., the film cost only $5,200 to produce, will be distributed for the asking to grammar schools, clubs, parent-teacher organizations...
...High and Dizzy," one of Hal Roach's first attempts, stars Harold Lloyd and his spirited slap-stick. The dead-pan humor of Buster Keaton is the main attraction of the evening's newest film, "The Navigator" produced in 1924. Charlie Chaplin's "A Night at the Show" is the climaz of this set of silent pictures...
...pastoral "Harvest." It is titled "Regain" in French and is written by Jean Giono. Tickets may be obtained by displaying bursar's cards at Robinson Hall. Showings will be given on Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. The film was originally banned by New York censors, but was later allowed to be shown...