Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly as a dry fly onto an upper-story windowsill). On TV, the Eyes shoot the joint up like maniacs, or "they all throw their revolvers away and use their fists and are too damn smart. A good Private Eye doesn...
...money they earn the shows are filmed on a tight budget: around ?40,000 and three days for each half-hour. With rare exceptions, the all-important night scenes are faked on the back lots of Hollywood; to save overtime wages, these are shot in daylight with the cameras stopped down or filtered. Most of the all-important fights are faked too. Some actors, e.g., Craig Stevens, who was once an amateur boxer, like to throw their own fists in the closeups, but directors are leary of such heroics. So far in 51 scraps, Stevens has had only one accident...
...reason why-to her obvious satisfaction. He then rings up the decorator and accuses her of listening in on his love life because she has none of her own. But not long after that, Rock gets a look at the "sour old maid" he has been scolding. As the camera sneaks up behind the squirming heroine, the hero gasps: "So that's the other end of your party line!" He decides to make a new connection at all costs, and introduces himself as a little old Texas millionaire. And so on, until, of course, the false pretenses...
Jacques Natleau wisely chooses to use his camera as an omniscient narrator. Rather than expressing the attitude of one character, Natleau impartially examines all motivations, significantly lending the film ambiguity. In siding with neither the Christ nor the Pilate, he leaves the audience with the task of choosing the hero, if there...
More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. Without his camera, but with love and 20/20 vision, a crack photographer roams over a quarter-century of world battlefronts...