Word: celluloidal
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...reason for this celluloid explosion is the widespread conviction among young people that film is the most vital modern art form. Jean Cocteau believed that movies could never become a true art until the materials to make them were as inexpensive as pencil and paper. The era he predicted is rapidly arriving. Students can now make a short film for as little as $25, and a workable 16-mm. camera can be had for as little as $40. McLuhan-age educators, moreover, welcome this form of creative endeavor. Some foresee the day when film training will be an accepted...
...Celluloid courtroom dramas often come to an end with the guilty person breaking down in the witness box and giving himself away while the judge looks on. It rarely happens that way in real life. But the pressures of the courtroom are great, and last week in Manhattan Harold Weinberg found them overwhelming...
...Hollywood superstars - Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, Edwin Booth - survived in legend and, perhaps fortunately for them, their greatness has to be taken on faith by posterity. But Chaplin, Garbo, the Barrymores and other film greats survive on celluloid, and in the movie houses or on TV's late, late shows, their legends are constantly up for review...
...attempts to influence film when the lens opening is taped shut, or when the camera is dispensed with altogether). Between the lens and himself he holds a small cylinder of paper or other material he calls the "gismo" (he typically employs a circlet of blackened Polaroid paper, formed with celluloid tape and prepared by anyone who wishes from their own materials at the beginning of a session, though he has used rings of other sorts of paper, napkin rings, and even the core of a roll of toilet paper, and succeeded with some of these variations). He suggests the camera...
...member of one of the regiments involved, now sadly lost in amalgamation, I observe with regret that your commentator on "Richardson's Folly," or whatever the new celluloid crucifixion of the Light Brigade [Aug. 4] is to be entitled, is ignorant of the history of the brigade and its gallant-but monotonously misrepresented-charge. Let him remember that the "military caste system" Miss Woodham-Smith so coldly indicts produced, along with all the other "rank incompetents," such commanders as Marlborough, Wolfe, Wellington-and, indeed, Washington...