Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 24, 1930

Happy Days (Fox). This is one of the new enlarged pictures, samples of which have been issuing from Hollywood from time to time and which, on the Fox lot, are known as Grandeur Pictures. Last year a method was perfected for taking oversized pictures by photographing them on unusually big films, with lenses in proportion, instead of exaggerating an ordinary film in projection. Concocters of Fox publicity announced that Fox experts had found a way to make films "in three dimensions."

Happy Days proves that this resounding phrase was not accurate. Although a "Grandeur...

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