Word: actually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Northside 777 (20th Century-Fox). One of the current trends in movies is a tendency to shoot stories based on actual fact, in actual places. The leader in making this kind of movie is 20th Century-Fox, which has proved with The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine, Boomerang! and Kiss of Death that semi-documentary "locale" films can compete successfully with studio fiction. All of these films except Boomerang! were directed by Henry Hathaway. Hathaway's new picture, Call Northside 777, is a fine addition to the list...
...stay absolutely faithful to it, and to give it shape and edge as drama and as popular entertainment. The makers of Northside had all that it takes and then some. Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. The sound track, as cleanly intelligent as the camera work, deserves a special Oscar: except in the dives, where instrumental music is proper, practically the only music heard is the magically evocative natural music of a big city...
...first actual test, Blumberg's new set-up recorded the extensive Philippine quake of Saturday, January 24. Only 19 minutes after the earthquake, waves began to "sign in" at the station, 35 miles north of the college, having first made their way through part of the earth's liquid core...
Among the FORUM'S few photographs of actual buildings were shots of Taliesin West, Wright's winter headquarters in the Arizona desert, which after ten years is "still under construction" by his students. Wright admits that the white canvas ceiling is likely to leak, but it is "translucent and attractive beyond expression." He considers light and space as important to houses as the roof itself...
Opinions supplementing the statistics of 12,000 actual case histories of secret sex behavior have been made to appear not as thoughts injected by the authors and their supporters, but as undeniable truths derived from the figures of the survey, Zimmerman explained. "These opinions will give huge prestige to the idea that it is useless and needless to repress...