Word: length
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haunted by heavy weather, the Crimson crew has been even later getting started this year than last when it was held up for an unbelievable length of time by ice on the river. Actually the boys are one week behind, which would mean about thirty-five miles out of conditioning record of last year...
Your reviewer also said "The Fight for Life runs for only 30 minutes." The Fight for Life contains 57 minutes of music, the longest continuous symphonic score that has ever, to my knowledge, been used in a motion picture. The picture itself runs the usual approximate length of a feature-68½ minutes...
...near List. He saw spouting pillars of fire. Then he heard the Sylt sirens start wailing, and searchlights shot up to finger the sky. Anti-aircraft guns started barking like a kennel of mastiffs aroused in the night. As the two bombers roared south, away from him down the length of Sylt, Herr Schmidt could hear other long-muzzled watchdogs take up the furious chorus...
Five minutes after the first two, another lone bomber power-dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched...
Last week, with its second full-length feature, Pinocchio, ready for a nationwide Easter Week opening, Walt Disney Productions applied to SEC for permission to sell 155,000 shares of $25 par, 6% cumulative convertible preferred stock. Purpose of the $3,875,000 offering: to pay off bank loans incurred in building the company's new studio at Burbank, Calif., and to provide working capital for four more features now in production: Bambi, Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, Fantasia...