Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average Canadian seems about as un-American as Everett Dirksen. He drives a car designed in Detroit, watches Bonanza and Batman, reads magazines edited in New York, and frets over international Communist conspiracy. In spite of all this, the average Canadian does not like Americans...
...weren't enough that the characters look and sound like guests stars on Bonanza, the whole movie smells of television. Not surprising: George Roy Hill, the metteur-en-scene, learned his art in a TV studo, and Hawaii suffers the consequences. Rarely using long shots, Hill always cuts to closeups when he needs dramatic intensity, a standard TV technique for "grabbing" the audience. Although close-ups can be an extremely effective dramatic device (see Hitchcock's Sabotage at Harvard Film Studies this fall), they are rarely as effective when the film is in Panavision, a wide-screen process with...
Comer Pyle-U.S.M.C., CBS, tied with Bonanza...
...before the camera. I've been a soldier, a gambler, and even a major-league baseball player. I know I could play the role of a Governor but that I could never really sit in his chair and make decisions affecting the education of millions of children." And Bonanza's Hoss, alias Dan Blocker, tells the folks: "I earn my living in front of a camera-pretending to be somebody I'm not. But one of my colleagues is having trouble separating fantasy from reality . . ." "It's true I've never held public office," Reagan...
Saskatchewan (pop. 954,000) has been transformed by the great wheat bonanza from a simple society where, until well into the 1950s, farm wives cooked on wood stoves, hauled water from the well and did their evening chores by the flickering light of a coal-oil lamp. Now farm families are moving into town, and the old-fashioned threshing gangs have given way to the farmer who sits in the air-conditioned cab of a $ 15,000 combine; he can now harvest a 1,000-acre crop with the help of a single hired hand. The farm-equip ment industry...