Word: celluloid
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...action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes and skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses...
...even Harry Cohn can conjure up-or do without-the special, ineffable magic of looks and personality that only a star strikes from celluloid. Young (24) and at the top of her form (37-23-37), Kim Novak is an ample (5 ft. 7 in., 125 Ibs.), creamy-skinned girl with classically solid Slavic good looks under a gloss of glamour. Her hazel eyes are long-lashed and deep-socketed; her full mouth pouts ever so slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With...
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...