Word: celluloidal
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...like other forms of fiction, are ready-made daydreams. Consciously and unconsciously the movies reflect, say the psychologists, the deep-rooted feelings of the national culture in which they are made. Last week movie fans could examine the results of an ambitious attempt by two psychologists to probe the celluloid daydreams of the U.S., Britain and France. Americans were not likely to find the results flattering...
...into American salesmen with an irresistibly sincere approach. It has successfully defied the concerted attacks of all Communist mouthpieces which denounce it as a drink vile, imperialistic and poisonous. Its makers suspect that it is the biggest thing since America provided oil to light the lamps of China and celluloid fables to feed the dreams of the world...
...present tenant at the Kenmore, Verdi's "Rigoletto," was filmed entirely on the stage of the Rome Opera House with singers recruited from La Seals. There has been no attempt to make it anything more than a celluloid recording of a performance. No dialogue has been added (and subtitling the arias would be to no one's good). For those patrons unfamiliar with the Victor Hugo story, there is a vastly confusing precis of each act written on the screen before each curtain-rise...
That sounded like a 19th Century ideal, and in a sense it was. To the free & easy followers of Matisse and Picasso, Hopper's realism seemed as harshly confining as a celluloid collar, but it had advantages. His devotion to nature kept him from being sour or repetitious, and his determination for "exact transcription" precluded fashionable slickness...
...same Pinkerton National Detective Agency which plodded patiently (but unsuccessfully) along in Jesse James's dust for 16 years, decided that he had had enough. The bold bandit who stared grimly out of the agency's secret files was no kin to the song-and-celluloid desperado whom everybody knew. Pinkerton decided to open the files and let the world see what its hero looked like all dressed up in his police record...