Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Examples of studio thoroughness: a dramatic academy, manned by five instructors, sweated to teach Smoky's cast of 40-odd horses how to register basic emotions for the camera (no tricks); the star's glossy black hide, which began to bleach in spots after several weeks on location in the Utah sun, had to be touched up periodically with walnut stain makeup...
...film service. Together, Roulon and Barclay framed the equipment with which they were able to produce the extremely accurate track. Since they had no priority on materials, their resourcefulness was occasionally called upon as a substitute, such as the time they had to convert an old projector into a camera or make their own counter when they were unable to buy a hand counter...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...
...days of the Depression, when even Hollywood wasn't able to afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...
...camera showed one of the earliest and greatest of European portrait sculptures. Supported by expressionless angels, King Edward's wide-browed, big-featured, somewhat ursine head was that of a proud, passionate man, inscrutably dreaming...