John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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ed for over 10 years took on new importance and caused much comment in film circles. The next year the talkie went musical with Broadway Melody and in 1929 turned toward serious drama with Jeanne Eagles in The Letterf' But it was Al Jolsorfs jazz Singer which caused a sensa- tion with its premiere at the Warner Theater in New York City. Motion pictures continued to ad- vance and we come now to very recent years. A major event in the American field was the premiere and release in 1934 of Becky Sharp, produced entirely in technicolor. Here is a list of some of the better pictures produced since 1922. In 1922, Orphans of the Storm, 1923 The Covered Wagon, 1924 Thief of Bagdad, 1925 Gold Rush, 1926 Variety, 1927 Beau Geste, 1928 The Patriot, 1929 Disraeli, 1950 All Quiet on the Western Frontj' 1931 Cimmaron, 1932 Grand Hotel, 1935 Caval- cade, 1934 Barretts of Wimpole Street. And while we're discussing facts, the several picture studios all vie for honors when it comes to producing fine films. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has present- ed features like Ah, Wilderness, Tale of Two Cities, Rose Marie, Great Ziegfeldj' Romeo and Juliet, David Copperfield, and San Fran- cisco. R.K.O. Pictures has produced Top Hat, The Informer, and Roberta The Fox Movietone News is an ac- complishment. With Lawrence Stall- ings as editor, and Lowell Thomas, narrator, the film produced by Truman Talley depicts current news events and brings the world to you. Universal has given us Show Boat, and Diamond jim. Films like Ruggles of Red Gap,', Les Miserables, and Lives of a Bengal Lancer, were offered by Para- mount. Warner Brothers has followed one hit after another in producing An- thony Adverse, Louis Pasteur, Captain Blood, and Midsummer Night's Dream. Important factors in the movie in dustry are the Annual Awards pre- sented by the Academy of Arts and Sciences to the outstanding Actress, Actor, and Production. Shall we re- view the winners of recent years? Year Actor 1927-28 Emil jannings Way of All Flesh 1928-29 Warner Baxter - In Old Arizona 1929-50 George Arliss Disraeli 1930-31 Lionel Barrymore A Free Soul 'I I5 11 .l.i1.-1- - 44

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gg IGHTSH . . . Action . . . Camera! And another mo- tion picture goes into produc- tion. Perhaps it will emerge from the cutting room in the form of light entertainment, perhaps it will preach a moral, but at any rate it should represent another step forward in the path of motion picture progress. From the very beginning, Holly- wood, the accepted home of motion pictures, has held a certain mystery, a hidden glamor for the movie fan. Lives of film stars are discussed in movie magazines, new pictures are pre- viewed and reviewed, and the motion picture field of actors, directors, extras, stunt men, stand-ins and thousands of others forms a history to which new pages are constantly being added. One of the first pictures lending dra- matic framework was The Great Train Robbery, also one of the first dramatic adventures of life in the wide, open spaces. This started the ball rolling. In 1907 Ben Hur be- came the first narrative film taken from a novel. In 1908 Pathe insti- tuted a news film which was presented in a little theater in Paris. The Way of a Man, was presented the follow- ing year featuring Mary Pickford and Arthur johnson, the screen's first matinee idol! Most of us derive great enjoyment from seeing ye olde slapstick come- dies. Well, a typical comedy of the day was Dirty Work in a Laundry, the film which really brought Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd to the fore. In 1911 t'The Tale of Two Cities made its Way to the screen, a three- reel picture with the narrative basis, and in the same year a two-reel film of Romeo and Juliet was presented, said to be the first film adaptation of Shakespeare. As early as 1912 color entered the films, but 1913 is import- ant because in that year Charlie Chap- lin officially entered pictures in The Kid's Auto Race. In 1914 the famed Tillie's Punctured Romance was pro- duced starring Marie Dressler and Charlie Chaplin. Short slapstick com- edies began to grow into feature length. But the movies were progressing. In 1915 The Birth of a Nation represented the culmination of the D. VU. Grifiith technique and in 1920 Douglas Fairbanks entered the scene with light romantic roles. In 1925 Paramount produced The Covered Wagon, and the following year Will Rogers appeared in the burlesqued version, Two Wagons-Both Cover- ed. In 1925 M.G.M. presented The Big Parade, America's film epic of the war. In 1928 the talkie, neglect- M 4

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1931-32 Fredric March Dr. Jekyll 8: Mr. Hyde 1932-33 Charles .Laughton Henry VIII 1933-34 Clark Gable It Happened One Night 1934-35 Victor McLaglen The Informer A ctrers janet Gaynor Seventh Heaven Mary Pickford Coquerte Norma Shearer The Divorcee Marie Dressler Min and Bill Helen Hayes Sin of Madelon Claudet Katherine Hepburn Morning Glory Claudette Colbert Bette Davis Of Human Bondage Film Wings Jazz Singer Broadway Melody All Quiet on the Western Front Cimarron Grand Hotel Cavalcade It Happened One Night The Informer As you know, the 1956 Awards were won by Luise Rainer for her work in The Great Ziegiieldf' and Paul Muni for Louis Pasteur. But 1936 was a year of hits what with Mutiny On The Bounty, a thrilling dramatic adventure, Top Hat, a re- freshing comedy, Midsummer Nightis Q. .,. Dream, a picture of beauty and gen- eral excellence. And now Hollywood goes another step forward in the production of some of the finest pictures in its his- tory. The movie industry concerns the rest of the nation in a manner outside of entertainment. It provides the government with more than a mil- lion dollars in taxes. It provides em- ployment for thousands of persons, and the largest plant in the world is the Twentieth-Century Fox studio in Hollywood, covering more than 110 acres of land. t Speaking of progress, the number of persons attending movies, is con- stantly increasing, the number of theatres is increasing, and accomoda- tions for patrons are increasing. The Radio City Music Hall, The Show- place of the Nation, can accomodate 6200 persons. Our own neighborhood theatres: The State holds 616, the Lelferts 1,586, the Cross Bay 1,452, and the Valencia 3,544 fNo, we didnit count themluj Plans for the future? Hollywood hasn't stopped making them. The studios hope to continue producing stories which will suit the tastes of every lilm fan. Among these are forth- coming dramas, musicals, literary works, comedies, and human interest stories. With such matters under considera- tion as a full length color cartoon, a picture with Leopold Stokowski and Mickey Mouse, and other novel and entertaining ideas, the film fan should sit back, contented and satisfied that Hollywood will do all in its power to bring life to the screen.