Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disciplinarian, but concede that regulations at Lawrence are tougher than at most colleges and that someone must enforce them. At convocations, he unloosens his dignity a bit and takes part in the skits. In "The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew," a recent offering, Pusey donned a false mustache and celluloid pop eyes to play a bartender...
...disciplinarian, but concede that regulations at Lawrence are tougher than at most colleges and that someone must enforce them. At convocations, he unloosens his dignity a bit and takes part in the skits. In "The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew," a recent offering, Pusey donned a false mustache and celluloid pop eyes to play a bartender...
...feature is a Fields day for fans of that comedian, Chaplin devotees will be disappointed in the two accompanying shorts. Admittedly, pictures of 1915 were primitive, but Shanghaied and Triple Trouble are barbaric. With no dialogue they are still far from silent. Loud, incongruous music blares and the celluloid flickers and snaps. What is more, Chaplin is an unpolished beginner. Only when he dances with a mutton leg or steals from a pickpocket is there a hint of the comedy Chaplin will later achieve...
...Director Stevens has put it together, Shane adds up to something more than the sum of its individual parts, it almost rises above its stock material to become a sort of celluloid symphony of six-shooters and the wide open spaces...
More than Stanley Kramer's other ventures into celluloid theatre, Member of the Wedding illustrates the difficulty of transferring a play from stage to film. Subservient to words on the stage, visual effects take precedence on the screen. Carson McCullers' story of a motherless adolescent who feels herself an "I person" among "we people" is one of great delicacy, but through the literal eye of the camera, which focuses as intently on an ice-box as on the actors, many of the nuances are lost. And with the camera's greater scope, the restrictions of a single set become very...