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3-Dimensional Hollywood's "No, No, Nanette!"
Films Of It's Almost
The Future
By FRED ISAAC
A
for
talking point cinema fans is the showing of a three-dimensional pic ture at the Festival of Britain Telecinema in Lon-
don.
What are the prospects of such films being seen by the millions of cinema-goers all over the world?
Though the cost of cinema conversion is heavy, and therefore unlikely to be attempted for some years on a big scale, film images are most certainly
coming out to greet you in almost human form.
Chorus girls in film 'musicals' will be dancing all around you, and the thun dering hoofs of the pony express will almost raise dust in your eyes.
Sheer
Nonsense
first-
Technicolour and
by Vincent class music Youmans, all of them re- trieved from his musical comedy "No, No, Nanette" of 1920 vintage, save "Tea For Two" from degenerating into sheer nonsense.
with no money who is persuad- Doris Day plays an heiress
cd do linenos i shri an/ Gordon MacRae is a song writer
ord with moonshine in his head. S.2. Sakall is guardian of the heiress who enters nie a bet. Worth $25,000. that she will persist in asserting the nega- (ive for 24 hours in a row.
So she says "No" to every- thing, even do the question
by Mr posed
MacRae who wants to know if she loves him. This build-up et a negative ac- its ellinax contuation reaches in the song "No, No. Nance."
which is one of the high spots
in the film. But, we never learn why the girl must be sa negative.
odd
Eve Arden provides fun at does inements, and so Billy de Wolfe, but these fashes of
occur arely cnough although there is an abundance says of corn.
"Films have been imprisoned for so many years on their flat screens that people have long ago forgotten that one of their dimensions is missing." Raymond Spottiswood, technical consultant 10 the British Film Institute.
The institute is sponsoring the Festival of Britain ultra-modern cinema.
A
wit
is.
compensating feature the excellence of the Youmans score, and songs like "I want to be happy" and "Tea, for Two" appear us fresh
and Big changes in films, as Im-ting portant as sound and colour, have been many years coming. 20 years ago.
The first man to do anything about it was the British inventor Friese-Greene, whose life story is now being screened by the lim Industry as a Festival Year gesture.
He was the first man to take stereoscopic movies. He turned his two-lens camera on a London scene in 1880, but he didn't know the whole story..
TWO METHODS
There are two methods of bringing the third dimension to the screen. The one used at the Festival Telecinema in London is that of polarised light, with the nudience
polarold wearing spectacles.
The other is the use of "cyclorama screen" and specially made cinema camera. To obtain the third dimension on a flat screen, im cameras Instead have to take two pictures
enchanted
when they Arst millions more than
-ADC
Gene Nelson and Doris Day go through the paces of a novel dance routine soon after the picture opens. Doris is a wealthy heiress and Gene is a dance in- structor.
Despite the depression and the loss of all his money, S. Z. Sakall is still persuaded by Doris to bet 525,000 that she will say "No" to all questions for 24 hours. Needless to say, she wins.
Continuing The Bette Davis Story
She Was Too Scared
To Face The Camera
There is a story- prob- ably fiction-that when Sum Goldwyn saw Bette Davis's first screen test he said: "Who did this to me?"
11, he wis
15. They on not she They were taking
unknown band- quanly: married-an merely an unknown they were signing a "mousey leader, a rising star. Bette Davis little blonde" who had flopped, called the marriage "the noble experiment" and went off on her Her new studio set out to make honeymoon. a leading lady of her, and Bette There is another true Davis took heed of one more
horself up with a new per rising higher. that a representative from suggestion by her mother to : roles waiting. Universal, sent to meet sonality. She dyed her Bette Davis on her arrival blonde, changed her make-up 1930's, but it imposed eye-strain in Hollywood, returned
of view.
one, sort of left and right eye America tried out a red and green Alter process in the
at the New York World's Fair. Third-dimensional sound is not such a difficult problem, though it calls for a special ap-
A number of sound tracks are
magnetically recorded in a film from and reproduce the sound
the tracks over a number of
speakers located in various ville. parts of the cinema, giving the effect of movement) of the source of the sound.
A major handicap
she
of
was
hair
and cultivated a flippant manner.
her
on the viewer. Marry people without her. He explained Bette Davis suddenly found saw short films made this way that he hadn't seen anyone herself talked about-not always In A complimentary fashion. who looked like an actress. There were those who did not She like the new Davis look. And after a number rode the criticism easily enough. unglamorous, ingenue roles, People were at least beginning to talk and by the time her studio executive told her to
work "Cabin In The Cotton"
in that she had about as much with Richard Barthelmess was sex appeal an Slim Summer- before the public she was re- cognised as 'a distinct new per- sonally.
The new Davis received one her unreasoned fear of the important check. The studio WELL TO THE FORE
cameras. "The change from and washed
change of British dims are well to the stage acting to the screen make-up; then they stepped in. They said she was beginning 40 fore in this development. Eles was terribly difficult for look too much like Constance trle and Musical Instruments,
admits. "I Bennett-so the hair went back Ltd., are co-operating with me,"
than the British Thomson Houston Co. couldn't bear to face the to one shade lighter |||||||||÷÷÷÷||~||~||~||~||||▬▬▬▬▬###+++++ in this development of film en-
camera, Every time a lens natural colour and it has stayed. tertainment. EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW tricate problems of recording was focused on me I would shrink and and Interlocking sound repro-involuntarily
turn my back.' The Almgoer of the future
"Cabin In The Colton" will have a feeling of being en-
picture, It The result was expected, When her tenth gulfed in whatever is taking her contract expired Waigned Match," "20,000 Years In Sing followed by "Three Оп A place on the screen. A man renewed. The man who signed will speak on the screen in front her was sacked and she began Sing "Bureau Of Missing of him to another who may to think of returning for a second Persons," "The Working Man," answer Aum apparently thesault upon Broadway.
"Parachute Jumper," "Fashion side of the cinema; A gun may
Follies OL. 1934," "Jimmy The seem to be discharged at the Once more mother suggested· Gen!”—a series of undistinguish- slaying a few days longer—and ed films, turned out rapidly for Filmgoing abgether will be in those days her luck changed.. the growing film audience. come more atlanulating ex- perience. The difference will be George Arliss was looking for They would have done nothing as great as the revolution of pomeone to play opposite bien in for an untalented actress, But the late 1920's when the Bims | "The Man Who Played God." through all their mediocrity began to talk,
An English actor called Murray there shone one thing; Misa How soon will this new de- Kinnell had appeared with Bette Davis was an actress. velopment be enjoyed by the in a flm called "The Mentee world's akn audiences? That's and he mentioned her to Arlies. anybody's, guess, it seems. In a
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It involves in-
back of the circle.
"/
that way ever since.
Marriage
was
WO
Half-way through this flood of
filma-in. August, 1932— young. orchestra onder named Harmon
good many countries crippling Arlike sent for her, and, taxation puts a brake on pro- | Warners signed her to a long- O. Nelson arrived in Hollywood, greas in this field.
They had met at school when
term contract.
She returned
to And bigger Ifer star was
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