Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making films exclusively for TV, the Hal Roach studios, well in the black, are now producing 1,500 hours of TV films a year, nearly three times Hollywood's annual output of feature movies. The 18-acre Roach lot, once used for such movie epics as Joan of Arc and Of Mice and Men, now gives houseroom to TV's Amos 'n' Andy, Trouble with Father (featuring Stu Erwin), Racket Squad, Mystery Theater, and a filmed version of Beulah...
...Zurich, Swiss scientists using the CBS color system (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949) showed off a new television projector on a 9 ft. by 12 ft. theater screen. Based on the Eidophor method first developed for black & white projection, the new projector gets most of its light from an arc lamp rather than from the conventional cathode-ray tube. Claimed Swiss Institute Director Ernest Bauman: "It is now better than Technicolor movies...
...cast as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. The job took six months and almost put him in the hospital. The banks of arc lights used for color film created murderous heat and he worked clad in long underwear, football shoulder pads and lion skin. It took two hours a day to apply his tricky makeup, and in every scene he was dependent, not only on his own art, but on a lackey who perched above him with a fishing rod and manipulated his tail...
...playwright after another has taken a whack at writing a play about Joan of Arc but the play by Bernard Shaw currently being produced at the Plymouth is the pick of the basket. Perhaps its appeal lies in that it avoids being a tearjerker, the fault of several Joan plays, and instead works on the emotions in an honest...
...indeed the Duke of Burgundy's men who captured Joan of Arc, who was then sold to the English for 10,000 gold crowns, but it was the English who turned her in to a clerical court (headed by Pierre Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais). The court declared her excommunicate, a "limb of Satan," and handed her over to the secular arm, i.e., the English occupation authorities in northern France. The English burned her at the stake...