Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crawly two-reeler made in 1913, it used the camera dissolve process to meld blue-eyed Mr. Baggot into horrendous Mr. Hyde. Critics, as well as small boys, were scared. Actor Baggot survived his ordeal to make more than 300 pictures, eventually became a director. When last seen on celluloid, he was playing the part of a perfectly normal doorman this year in Come Live With...
...Snapshots. Only a classical full-sized (14 by 17 inches) X-ray on celluloid can give a perfect picture of the lungs. But these plates take too long for mass examination, cost anywhere from $2 to $25. Last week Dr. Arthur Carlisle Christie of Washington, D.C. discussed two new methods of X-ray that are quick and cheap: miniature films and paper rolls...
Pictures on paper film are standard size, taken on a long roll, instead of separate celluloid plates. Over 125 X-rays can be made in an hour for a little less than a dollar apiece. In Manhattan, paper films have been used to X-ray 50,000 draftees and National Guardsmen...
...method produces a print in one operation. Main principle: a triple coating of sensitive chemicals on the surface to be printed, each layer of chemicals picking up a different set of colors from the transparencies. Final prints are not on paper but on a sort of celluloid, are at present processed-like home movies in color-only at Eastman's laboratories...
...months ago Will Hays, head of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., keeper of Hollywood's celluloid morals, told picture makers to find some less revealing garment than the sweater in which to clothe their shapely ingenues. Betimes, Mr. Hays worked on the Hollywood dictionary. Some of his latest don'ts (the parentheses...