Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Loss never expected to go into the movie business. But as a financial analyst with Manhattan's H. Hentz & Co. and a director of Citizens Traction Co., he often noticed another entry in the "Ci" columns: Cinecolor Corp., a company which processes color movie films. As the stock crept from 4? a share toward $1, he noticed Cinecolor more & more...
...Color photography was not new (books had been written on it in 1855). But only one company, Technicolor Inc., had produced it successfully for the movies. Now Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of A pictures. This fact did not discourage Loss. Technicolor was booked solid (about 30 feature pictures a year, plus shorts), and it was turning business away. There seemed to be room for Cinecolor...
...hard way-by withstanding a half-botched production. Despite rather limp staging and several performers who seemed in the wrong roles or even in the wrong profession, Hecht's and MacArthur's rowdy salute to their Chicago newspaper days has brash, improbable life and gaudy, slapdash color...
...them speak one or more foreign languages. This versatility gets more useful every day now that foreign publications are reaching America again in almost prewar quantity-and, of course, articles written for foreign audiences in their native tongues are a rich source of background information and local color. (Most difficult to translate, observes one Foreign News researcher, are the captions under the cartoons. The reason is a wry one coming from TIME-she says the lines are "too condensed, too colloquial...
...Moment of Happiness), whose opinions were splashed across Page One. Next came front-page editorials demanding that erring novelists and their publishers of "best-smellers" be brought to law. Only Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was mentioned specifically; but there were also cracks at "Forever Off-Color...