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Films
Bakshy, Alexander | December 24, 1930 issue

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The article presents information on two motion pictures, "Fast and Loose" and "Laughter." Of both of them it must be said that in their lightness of touch and their pains to get away from the obvious they represent Hollywood at its best. That this best does not amount to very much if measured by the creative standard need not be stressed in this instance. The important fact about the two pictures is the evidence they contain of the workings of the Main Street mind. The evidence is of course indirect, for it comes only from makers of the films; but these shrewd judges of their public know what they are doing

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MOTION picture industry; FILMSTRIPS; LAUGHTER (Film); PUBLIC opinion; MOTION pictures; JUDGES
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