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Blue skies appear yellow in the negative; red lips are blue-green; grass is red. Eastman's color photography has until now been limited to transparent positives ("Kodachromes"), which could, however, be printed on a sort of celluloid at greater cost by another recent Eastman process (TIME, Sept...
...fault lies with director King, Vidor and Robert Young. If any of the lines are good, he added, it is because they are his. Mr. Marquand's concern is unnecessary, and he need not lose much sleep over the transfer of his subtle literary satire from paper to celluloid. It is an excellent film, well-acted and brilliantly directed, and Harvard graduates from Maine to Texas will rejoice in the gentle expose of the stuffiness that makes Boston unique in the world...
These new novels by Edna Ferber (who writes-just-like-a-man) and Louis Bromfield (who writes almost like one) have three things in common: both use New Orleans, both will sell well, and both are so predigested for celluloid that they hardly sit still on the page. But one of them is pretty good, and the other pretty...
Thus do the Brothers Warner introduce their cinema version of Author Hartzell Spence's biography of his father (One Foot in Heaven). It is a notable adaptation. The lively, humane, very worldly doings of Parson Spence have been transferred to celluloid with intelligence and charm; for the first time Hollywood has created a U.S. pastor with marrow in his bones. Human and humorous, Heaven is a bracing pastor's-eye-view of the Midwest U.S. of two wars...
Pictures on paper film are standard size, taken on a long roll, instead of separate celluloid plates. Over 125 X-rays can be made in an hour for a little less than a dollar apiece. In Manhattan, paper films have been used to X-ray 50,000 draftees and National Guardsmen...