Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silence. When a machine gun fires, the frames jump in the same staccato. The film is divided into tweive titled episodes; the exposure as well as the focus fades emphatically with the concluding line of each episode. Alternating sequences of an early Dreyer film clip and Godard's modern celluloid contrast sharply with each other...
...going to be sponsored, I would not have permitted them to film," blocked Block. With that, he refused to sign a release unless NBC promised to contribute $5,000 to the Chicago Art Institute. Against our principles, mumbled the network, and the whole $10,000 worth of celluloid was destroyed...
...Young people today are more realistic and serious than Hollywood's masters of celluloid banality are willing to believe. We do not want to escape into a euphoric dreamland, but want to face life as it is. Unless Hollywood realizes this fact, the New Wave artists who can communicate reality, and communicate it meaningfully, may well sound Hollywood's death knell...
...costume of Cassandra's charioteer, Mr. John Weare, class of 1907. Having been chosen for his brawn and skill to manage the span of affectionate but spirited Arabian horses, this charioteer, who also drives an automobile, chose in turn to wear his driver's license, a white celluloid button, usually worn on coat lapel, pinned to his fillet at midpoint of his forehead where, as it glanced and gleamed in the sunlight, the spurious interpolation was doubtless supposed by the audience to be some antique jewel of fabulous value...
Died. Edmund Richard "Hoot" Gibson, 70, six-gun king of the celluloid range, a homely Nebraska cowboy who thrilled three decades of moviegoers, starting out in 1910 as a $20-a-week stunt man and going on to become one of horse opera's Big Five (the others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...