Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cineravna a series disconnected scenes which infringe even after the novelty has worn off--this is line of no other celluloid safari into the dimension of depth: all of The Start Shares another experiment but in two dimensions a faithful reproduction of one of Joseph Comad's shorter works, remarkably unembellished of by twist on gimmick, and proof that the gauche, black and white film has hardly exhumed its possibilities for either entertainment on aesthetics...
...this celluloid third dimension is not the one we normally see. Sacrificing reality for illusory depth, this process, known whimsically as "Natural Vision," seems too real. Anyone who has looked into a stereopticon viewer knows that the effect of viewing a flat film from a different angle with each eye produces a false sense of overly pronounced depth. The individual figures seem to have depth as does the seem, but all figures are isolated in stages. So it is with Bwana Devil...
...clung to Billy even in death, members of his family hired a lawyer, threatened the undertaker with legal action, and demanded that he deliver the body to them in Galena, Kans. Boydstun, who had begun getting black looks from people in Comanche, hastened to oblige. He laid three dozen celluloid roses on Billy's chest, put a plastic boutonniere in his lapel, loaded the coffin into his hearse and took it to them. That night a handful of Billy's kin took him quietly to a rural cemetery at Lone Elm, Kans. and buried him by the light...
...control of a lavish Hollywood lot. March an army of extras in slow motion through the lives of father & son featuring such types as deep, silent directors (genius division), mean old financiers with moist-eyed granddaughters, fading stars, grasping agents, gossip columnists, and other native life of the celluloid jungle. Dub in a score of documentary asides on 20 pre-talkie years of motion-picture history, focus on the printed page, and the nickering result is The Magic Lantern, Author Robert Carson's 504-page formula for the great Hollywood novel and the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...office in the Executive Office Building just two doors down the hall from Lawton's own quarters. There, Dodge took off his grey Homburg, grey suede gloves and dark blue overcoat and settled down behind a big desk on which he placed 1) a pile of celluloid calendars advertising his Detroit Bank, 2) a copy of the Republican platform (which calls for "reduction of expenditures by the elimination of waste and extravagance"). Then he got down to work looking over the voluminous drafts for Harry Truman's budget for fiscal 1954 (which begins next July...