Word: celluloidal
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Night and Day (Warner), purporting to be a biography of popular Songsmith Cole Porter, is another of Hollywood's celluloid shrines to the living...
...snag. To carry out his present plan in bettering the film, Barclay faces the task of superimposing three pictures on a single frame. A triple exposure, he claims, means far too great a margin of error, and he is afraid that if he put what he wanted on celluloid, lined up the three desired simultaneous images, and fired away, that the bottom picture would be obliterated by the top two and the total result would be confusion...
Somewhere in the Night (20th Century-Fox) is a beryllium-hard thriller and a rattling good celluloid chase. Goal of the fast, frenzied search: the hero's lost memory...
Interlude. Out in the city, alarm tickers punched out tapes, bells clanged, fire trucks lurched from the stations. Inside the hotel the fire grew as if it were fed by celluloid and gasoline. In five minutes it crumbled marble, melted doorknobs, roared up the multiple chimneys formed by the elevator shafts and the stair wells of the 22-story building. Walls took fire on the first five floors. Superheated gases and choking smoke blew through corridors all the way to the roof. But for what seemed a long time the streets outside stayed as dark and quiet as if nothing...
...days of the Depression, when even Hollywood wasn't able to afford high priced films, the Marx Brothers were merely set in front of a rolling camera and untied. The result was a mad sweep stake through the Celluloid, with no handicaps. In comparison, the inflationary "A Night in Casablanca" turns out to be nothing more than a potato sack relay at a Yosian picnic...