Word: celluloidal
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...latest entrants into the celluloid sweepstakes are convinced that they can turn a handsome profit. Says Tom Moore, former president of ABC television, who now heads G.E.'s newly created film division, Tomorrow Entertainment: "The big pictures' losing big is what ruined Hollywood, but if you take those out and look at the grosses on the smaller budget pictures, the business isn't so bad. We intend to turn a profit as quickly as we can." Mary Wells Lawrence, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, is even more explicit: "It's not the ego satisfaction...
...contrast, reiterates the factual relativism of every image, explicitly calling attention to the manipulative process going on, forcing us to constantly redefine our relation to the screen. Are events staged or accidental? Scripted or "real life"? And how significant is the difference, given that we see them as celluloid anyway, slowed down, cut up, and re-assembled on the editing table? Whereas McBride's self-revelation is a final emotional statement of futility, Burke's self-conscious (yet ambiguous) narrative frame invites analysis-in fact demands it-of what the images actually succeed (and fail) in telling...
...intelligence. And unbeatable, unbeatable cool. And a celluloid background that started unreeling 30 years ago. A graduate of the starlet's academy, Hollywood High, she won her first lead in the war film Dive Bomber, but failed to land either Co-Star Errol Flynn or Fred MacMurray; both loved flying more. Late Show buffs can catch her around, but not quite in, movie musicals. She was Mrs. Cole Porter in Night and Day and George Gershwin's gal in Rhapsody in Blue. Customarily, though, she was Warner Brothers' snow queen, a frosty beauty about as seducible as the Statue...
...consumer-item viewed in a dark theatre by a passive, alienated mass, film already constitutes a mystical, reified object, a spectacle that obscures the conditions of its production: that it is man-made, that it isn't a Larger-than-Life-Reflection-of-Reality, that it is merely a celluloid construct. The Hollywood artistry Petri employs, and the Ideology of Ambiguous Truth he promotes, reinforce the perverse relation between the audience and their fetishized entertainment commodity, his film becomes an exciting, confusing, reassuring, self-inclusive Reality: an Artistic Whole, fascinating, hence demobilizing. Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion, with...
Table tennis, that vicious art of demolishing an opponent with reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...