Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Is the Army (Warner) on Techni-colored celluloid should make the flesh version's $1,951,045.11 (earned for Army Emergency Relief) look like eleven cents in a deserving bucket. For it offers U.S. cinemaudiences the rare pleasure of feeling generous toward a generous...
...stars went to the soldiers in patriotic bursts of celluloid which World War II has yet to touch. They went in pictures like Hearts of the World; The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin; the wonderful Shoulder Arms and the somewhat less wonderful but far more typical The Little American, in which German soldiers battered at the stateroom doors of the foundering Lusitania in their eagerness to get at U.S. Red Cross nurses. Such films were reportedly shown on hospital ceilings and in rude theaters 90 ft. under the blasts of Verdun. It is hardly surprising that veterans turn up, now & then...
...Library of Congress sometimes discovers that it is richer than it knew. Last winter, for instance, the Library found that it owns probably the world's finest collection of early U.S. movies. Last week this treasure-which is on paper instead of celluloid film-was still unexplored, uncatalogued. But it was known to include such riches...
Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) is a celluloid glorification of the U.S. merchant marine. To accomplish its business, it signs on First Mate Humphrey Bogart under Skipper Raymond Massey and puts these tough, tenderhearted salts safely through a disaster-laden, pulp-fictional log of two wartime Atlantic crossings. In an interval ashore, Bogart punctuates the voyages with one of his own patented semicolons by finding just enough time to saunter into a waterfront dive, sock a loose-talking barfly and marry the blonde, black-gowned entertainer of the place almost before she can finish throating Night...
...this way all the time," declares the hero of "The Human Comedy," first Saroyanesque venture into the realm of the motion picture. And the author drums away at his simple theme reel after reel, in a film which occasionally reaches heights of emotion and feeling rarely equalled on celluloid, but which descends to the maudlin almost as often...