Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World politics had never seemed so fully divorced from furtiveness and formality, from striped pants, heel clicking, and shiny tables in big, guarded rooms. Almost before the first Bronx meetings began, two A.F. of L. unions had a vehement jurisdictional argument over the television camera in UNO's council chamber. People representing something called "The Committee for Non-Violent Revolution" picketed delegates at a cocktail party in Manhattan, were noisily hauled away by the cops. Some 2,000 newspaper and radio men-181.8 for each delegate-swarmed like lightning bugs, flashbulbs popping...
...begins with shots of 17th-Century London and Shakespeare's Globe Theater, where Henry V is being played. The florid acting of Olivier and his prelates (see cut) and the Elizabethan audience's vociferous reactions are worth volumes of Shakespearean footnotes. For the invasion, the camera, beautifully assisted by the Chorus (Leslie Banks), dissolves in space through a marine backdrop to discover a massive set such as Shakespeare never dreamed of - and dissolves backward in time to the year 1415. Delicately as a photo graphic print in a chemical bath, there emerges the basic style of Shakespearean cinema...
...hypnotic Chorus resumes; the camera pans to the English camp and strolls, as if it were the wandering King himself, among the firelit tents...
...towns like Martin, Tenn., and Benton, Ark., the wiry 76-year-old stopped his plodding Chevrolet and got out to visit with the villagers. He talked their language, quoted their Bible, knew their crops and brought news to them from neighboring towns. In his notes and in his uncertain camera, he imprisoned a homely record that dealt with horses, people, auctions, and little girls who raise rabbits. When he had enough of a haul, he headed home to St. Louis and his desk at Joseph Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch...
Handled with honesty and insight, the problem of a young widow with children could make an effective movie. "My Reputation's" skillful avoidance of these virtues is particularly unfortunate in view of some stunning camera effects and Miss Stanwyck's zestful performance...