Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hygiene (20th Century-Fox). Honest, down-to-earth Director John Ford (The Informer, Grapes of Wrath) fortunately made this one. Simple, firm, effective and adult, it is a superior sample of the art of documentary filmmaking...
...Basic Principles of Skiing (20th Century-Fox), like all skiing pictures, is a photographic natural. Made with veteran ski troops (see cut) it could be exhibited to any cinemaudience with profit. Despite its necessarily lengthy explanations, the film builds its own suspense right up to the end: some first-rate mountain shots of a ski patrol on reconnaissance. Nothing ever happens, but it seems about to. Well-scored is the musical accompaniment for the cross-country and downhill sequences...
Military Courtesy and Customs of the Service (20th Century-Fox) has everything: a plot, Hollywood actors, props and plenty of action. It is a Grade-A Production. Opening with shots of crowds milling through a subway, it moves on to the lyrical rhythm of a symphony orchestra's string section. Purpose: to show what can be done by people who are willing to work together...
...Valley Serenade (20th Century-Fox) is pleasantly put together around the reasonable assumption that Sonja Henie fans have tired of seeing Henie skate. Instead, Sonja plays a Norwegian refugee who skis...
...please all hands, and to graft Serenade tight to the U.S. box office, 20th Century has made it a ski-musical. For those who suffer from the brassy effects of Glenn Miller's hot and cold treatment of fair-to-middling new tunes (best: Chattanooga Choo Choo), there is plenty of slaloming at Idaho's Sun Valley. Performed by experts (and happily lampooned by liver-lipped Comic Milton Berle), the skiing sequences are a spectacular job of chiaroscuro photography...