Slipping from the heights, gathering in avalanches, it booms and roars like thunder, and makes a glorious show as it sweeps down the mountain-side, arrayed in long, silken streamers and wreathing, swirling films of crystal dust.

Death, a vague film in an illimitable sky, tempered without obscuring the sunshine of her life.

Sitting there with the look of unshed tears seeming to form a film over her gaze, it was as if the dusk, flowing into a silence that was solemnly shaped to receive it, folded her in, more and more obscuring her.

All that rewarded them were a sky filmed with lofty clouds, and the holiday parade of the epauletted waves.

(In Films in review, Feb. 1, 1950)

I perceived all its excellences, on a first reading, as readily as now you have been removing a supposed film from my eyes.

The six crouched and huddling Cardinals cowered revealed to one another, and at the same time enjoyed the spectacle of his Holiness darting through the stone ceiling, which yielded like a film to his passage, and closed up afterwards as if nothing had happened.

You look back as you rise, and strain for glimpses of the tawny valley, blue glints of the Bitter Lake, and tender cloud films on the farther ranges.

I will build the twenty theatres myself, and furnish the films for them, provided the young ladies will agree to assume the entire management of them when they are completed.

"As for him knowing something about the pictures now, why he doesn't even know how to thread the film into the camera.

He should have paid heed to the first threat of a thin film across the sky; he should have turned back with Gloria the first thing this morning; he should have done anything in the world save exactly what he had done.

He regarded the film as having two surfaces from which light is reflected, an anterior exterior surface and a posterior interior surface.

There was a red film before his eyes.

"But if it has them films inside ye'll ruin the hull bunch if ye lets daylight in on 'em.

Anyway, he was on hand yesterday and quietly ran his film during the excitement of the rescue.

I was going by one of the theatres when I noticed a placard that read: 'Sensational Film by Maud Stanton, the Queen of Motion Picture Actresses, entitled "A Gallant Rescue!"

" So now the procession was sent back into the passage and rearranged in proper order; the signal was given to begin and in an instant the camera renewed its clicking as the operator slowly revolved the handle that carried the long strip of film past the lenses.

The woods are hazy, as if the warm sunbeams had melted in among the interstices of the foliage and spread a soft film throughout the whole.

That sensation we poor mortals often have, of being just on the edge of infinite beauty, yet with always a lingering film between, never presses down more closely than on days like this.

With that she could either witness the first-run films at the Palace, or by dividing her fortune patronize two of the nickel shows on Lenox Avenue.

I'm going to ask if I can develop the film without running the risk of losing my commission.

I look out at the stiff comeliness of the variously tinted asters, at the hoary-colored dew that is like a film along the morning grass.