Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British cinema's ranking male idol, James Mason, explained why he was so popular in nasty-tough roles: "It's because there's a taste for sadism, especially in the post-war period...
...third broadside in the battle of national morals was the widely publicized statement by Zimmerman that "one of the first things that has to be done to preserve the family system is to clean out the group of decadent people in Hollywood." Indignant disclaimers had poured in from the cinema capital and yesterday Zimmerman felt called upon to enlarge his charges. Few areas of the Sunshine State were left untouched in his subsequent remarks...
...cinema critic who can also lay claim to being a first-class moviemaker is a blue-eyed, Milquetoast-mustached Scot named John Grierson. At 48, John Grierson might well call himself the father of the documentary. A minor proof of paternity: he was the first to call the fact film a "documentary." As a documentary-maker for the British Government (1927-39), he trained most of that country's current crop of experts. During the war, he bossed Canada's wartime National Film Board and turned out the excellent series of shorts called World in Action and Canada...
...professional mind . . . [with] his crowds and continuities, yes, and images too. ... How good and fine an artist he is may possibly be another matter. . . . I like both his bathtubs and his debauches, for the sufficient (I hope technical) reason that they are the biggest and the best in cinema. No man short of a Napoleon of movie would dare them, and DeMille is almost casual in their making...
...Robert [Nanook of the North] Flaherty's cinema is as far removed from the theatrical tradition as it can possibly be. His screen is not a stage to which the action of a story is brought, but rather a magical opening in the theater wall, through which one may look out to the wide world: overseeing and overhearing the intimate things of common life which only the camera and microphone of the film artist can reveal...