Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Russian moviegoers, whose last look at a new U.S. film was The Men in Her Life, in 1945, may soon get another peep behind Hollywood's celluloid curtain. After nearly two years of negotiation, the Ministry of Trade in Moscow last week cleared the way for delivery of a million-dollar, 20-picture package. Among the films the Russians were dickering for: Madame Curie, The Yearling, The Wizard of Oz, Captain Kidd, Tarzan's New York Adventure...
...ZANUCK ADMIRER, I'M NOT BLIND TO THE POSSIBILITY THAT CELLULOID FINDING ITSELF IN ACTUAL CONTACT WITH ZANUCK'S BROW MIGHT SPONTANEOUSLY DEVELOP AN EXTRA SPROCKET HOLE...
Many an American felt his first real thrill over Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone when he saw Hollywood's debonair Don Ameche perform the miracle on celluloid while making love to Loretta Young. Last week, Moscow moviegoers were equally thrilled to relive a great moment of Soviet science. In a new full-length picture (Alexander Popov), People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. Nicolai Cherkassov (who looks a little like Henry Fonda) enacts the life of Russia's scientist. Popov, in the U.S.S.R.'s campaign to claim all the inventions of the past...
...like other forms of fiction, are ready-made daydreams. Consciously and unconsciously the movies reflect, say the psychologists, the deep-rooted feelings of the national culture in which they are made. Last week movie fans could examine the results of an ambitious attempt by two psychologists to probe the celluloid daydreams of the U.S., Britain and France. Americans were not likely to find the results flattering...
...into American salesmen with an irresistibly sincere approach. It has successfully defied the concerted attacks of all Communist mouthpieces which denounce it as a drink vile, imperialistic and poisonous. Its makers suspect that it is the biggest thing since America provided oil to light the lamps of China and celluloid fables to feed the dreams of the world...