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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apart from the actual plot, the aspect of "Citizen Kane" for which it will always be famous is Welles' use of his cameras. The photography is magnificent. Although professionals usually say that these camera effects are consciously "unusual," to an ordinary moviegoer they make the film memorable. The wildly shifting perspectives, the entirely new treatment of three-dimensional effects, the odd angles of approach, and the relation of lights and shadows contribute at least as much drama as the script...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/21/1949 | See Source »

...easy," he said. "We just got hold of 50 tomcats and they killed the mice in no time. Of course we did have a little trouble getting rid of the cats-had to get a bunch of ferocious bulldogs. They really tore those cats apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...love affair of Ann and Robert had mighty little spirit and even less romance old Tom Wilcher thought. After they were married, Robert returned to the fields phlegmatically modernizing the farm, and Ann calmly took up her chores, all as romantic as a baked potato. And naturally they drifted apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vote for Victoria | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...M.I.T.'s Rockwell Cage, a huge, airy gym standing apart from the columned halls where man's spirit was under investigation, the scientists discussed man's material condition. In the panel on "the Problem of World Production," Fairfield (Our Plundered Planet) Osborn once more raised his familiar Malthusian bogy of ever-shrinking resources, ever-increasing population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: PRODUCTION | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Cinemactress Judy Garland, after four years and one child, announced the breakup of her second marriage, to Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli (No. 1: Composer David Rose). Said she: "I'm very sorry, but it's true; we're happier apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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