Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such celebrated series as Air Power and Victory At Sea have shown what wonders imaginative handling can work with the heaps of celluloid that lie hoarded in film vaults. Last week NBC began showing how the same technique can pay off in an exciting sports show, The Big Moment (Friday, 9:30 p.m. E.D.T.). Put together by Hearst Metrotone News experts with Sportscaster Bud Palmer as host-narrator, the first of the half-hour series presented a fast-moving cavalcade of memorable events, e.g., Roger Bannister outracing John Landy, Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning homer for the New York...
...Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn Lloyd as "Mr. Celluloid." Last week, in implicit answer to all criticisms, Macmillan publicly described Lloyd as "a loyal and sagacious colleague" with "a stout heart and a cool head," but carefully refrained from committing himself to keeping Lloyd in the Cabinet for any specified length of time. "In politics, as in rowing a boat...
...celluloid epic patterns set by D. W. Griffith in 1915 have changed very little: you just take some romantic, legendary, historical period like Reconstruction in the South, add a zesty love affair or three between ideal "period" characters to raise the story above documentary level, and interpret history in some engrossing way. Nowadays you also spend five million dollars or so and tell people movies are better than ever, in hope that you will make back the five million...
...women's fashions. To produce an echo that would come closest to what the '20s would call the real McCoy, television turned to its indispensable ally, the cinema. Four film searchers took 800 hours to view all they could find of the decade's imprint on celluloid. Out of it they culled 23 hours of film for NBC Producer Henry (Victory at Sea) Salomon and his Project 20 staff. This week (Thurs. 10 p.m., E.S.T., NBC) TViewers can see the result: The Jazz Age, which boils ten gaudy years down to 54 lively minutes...
...after a chest operation; in Portland, Me. When Hollywood turned Mulford's plug-ugly, hell-for-leather Hoppy into a handsome, clean-living dude (played by William Boyd since 1935), Author Mulford let out a pained cry ("an absolutely ludicrous character''), saw only six versions on celluloid, none on TV. Fifteen years ago, after grinding out more than 100 western novels and short stories, stay-at-home Author Mulford rebelled at high federal income taxes, quit writing altogether...