Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best Marks. Through the week TV's own writers, actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory...
...buses, sitting in railroad stations ("The benches are just the right distance apart for watching people"). Much of the time he carries his Leica, snaps hundreds of pictures of street scenes, gestures, buildings and expressions, files them all away for the time when he will need to make a background authentic. Other ideas also come from watching Elise, his wife (and childhood sweetheart), their pretty, brunette daughter Joyce, 22, and nine-year-old son George Jr. All bear strong resemblances to their cartoon counterparts. Another source of ideas is a Los Angeles housewife, Estelle Waldman. Ten years ago she wrote...
...seminar sounding like a congressional committee hearing. What were the Germans' key mistakes? Why were the British so short on fighter aircraft when war began? What lessons can the U.S., as yet untested in air defense, learn from Britain's ordeal? Primed with facts and background, the students kept verbal exchanges short and to the point, built up enough discussion to keep them arguing and learning long after class...
...student puts in ten to 15 hours weekly analyzing the press, books and documents (e.g., Britain's white papers on defense, the 1954 U.S. budget), writing discussion papers on specific subjects (e.g., U.S. manpower requirements, tactical air power). A six-student team is appointed to prepare and distribute background material for each case study; before seminar time they go over the topic with the guest speaker. Tape-recorded "testimony" is later transcribed, edited and distibuted for future study. Among the speakers thus far: R.A.F. Marshal Sir John Slessor, Army Lieut. General (ret.) Albert C. Wedemeyer, Vice Admiral Matthias...
...goodism; Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years. Better still are the students themselves, some of whom were borrowed from their desks in the Los Angeles public school system. The sense of them there in the background has obviously provided a true emotional standard to which the professional actors, notably Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, could repair...