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...definitions looked simple enough, in Webster's dictionary. But translating a definition into action-even staged, cinematic action-was not so simple, as Encyclopedia Britannica Films discovered. When E.B.F. wanted to make educational movies on Democracy and Despotism, it took a panel of twelve scholarly advisers (headed by Yale's Harold Lasswell) 20 months and 100 conferences to agree. The scholars had to survey from Plato to Harry Truman before they came to terms...
...size. Iseult the Fair has a whole bag of tricks up her flowing sleeves. Tristan is probably the most versatile hero of legendary history: he is not only death to dragons, but a first-rate harpist and singer and an ace huntsman and seaman. He is, notes the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "the Admirable Crichton of medieval romance [and] it must be regretfully admitted that he is also a most accomplished liar...
Several sizable film producers are already in the field, and hoping for a boom. The biggest so far, the University of Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, offers a range of subjects from The Adventure of Bunny Rabbit (for kindergarten) to thermodynamics and electrochemistry (for college students). The MARCH OF TIME is rounding out its first year of Forum Films for schools, plans eight new titles...
...opposition (but not planned that way, insisted David Cityans) was a showing of 28 oils by 41-year-old Dale Nichols, art editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and a nationally known painter of Christmas-cardish Midwestern landscapes and Greyhound bus ads. Nichols' specialties are heart-warming red barns, picturesque blue snowhills, tree branches reaching to cobalt skies...
Microfilm (using much greater reductions than are now common) could reduce the Encyclopaedia Britannica to the size of a matchbox, might even store the whole printed record of the human race in one moving van. All the information that the most learned scholar needs could be filed in one end of a desk...