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Ann Dvorak's Big Future

Two Little Girls with Big Futures! "The passage of time has been very kind to Three on a Match and Ann Dvorak, as the film now is considered a quintessential pre-Code classic, complete with sex, drugs, booze, skin, kidnapping, suicide, and magnified nose-hair plucking. For modern audiences aware of the ultra-sanitized scenarios that would plague American films for decades once the Production Code was aggressively enforced, Three on a Match stands out as a delightfully shocking and racy example of early 1930s Hollywood. Ann is only mildly effective as the society wife but comes to dominate the film once her downfall begins, and the train wreck that is Vivian Revere is mesmerizing. Any pent-up nervous energy Ann may have had in real life is unleashed through Vivian and she isn’t afraid to look like hell to bring this character to life. In one scene, as she waits for Blondell to exit a beauty parlor in order to hit her up for cash, Ann appears emaciated with dark circles under her ey...
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This Is Cinerama

 


"As was everyone else in the motion picture industry who attended the premiere of Cinerama, I was tremendously impressed with its possibilities. Cinerama is not a stereo film system, nor does its inventor call it a three-dimension system. It is, instead, a means of bringing vastness to the screen without distortion or loss of definition and to create a sense of space through a larger, new type of screen, which fills the proscenium arch of the theatre. Sir Alexander Korda has described it most aptly as ". . . one of the most important inventions in the history of films. It gives the complete illusion of three dimension effects in color and sound without the use of glasses."

"Lowell Thomas, one of the important men associated with the new process describes Cinerama as "an adventure with a new medium which I believe will revolutionize the technique of motion picture story telling. From the beginning, pictures have been restricted by space. A painting is hemmed in by its frame, so to speak. Conventional motion pictures are confined to a narrow screen. You see only what is straight ahead, while normal vision includes what you see out of the corners of the eyes. Someone has said that movies are like looking through a keyhole. Cinerama breaks out of the sides of the ordinary screen, and presents nearly the scope of normal vision and hearing."



Links and sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzjdlyZCD8
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/cineramaref.htm
http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/ac-cinerama.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20110625191630/http://www.iatse354.com/354/354html/denver.htm

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