Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities by which the California celluloid kings have redeemed themselves in this presentation, is the scrupulous regard for the accuracy of local color. All of the characters are really French, and the settings fit the average American's conception of French life. The irking tendency of Hollywood producers to create all sorts of inconsistencies of time and place has been meticulously avoided...
Bright red banners wavered in the soft spring air. A tremendous color portrait of Stalin in his marshal's sand-hued greatcoat smiled benignly from the ornate facade of the Historical Museum. Old women scrubbed shop windows, old men hosed the streets, anxious housewives queued up for special holiday goodies and 10,000 Red Army men gathered one evening before the Bolshoi Theater to practice mass singing. Moscow was ready for May Day; people said that there might be an oldtime monster parade across Red Square, the first since...
Some 35,000 Chinese now live in Canada. The Dominion never excluded Japanese, now has some 12,500 in resettlement and internment camps, another 11,000 at large. The Prime Minister, making his amends to China last week, had color-touchy British Columbians in mind when he expressed a hope that there would be no opposition "in any part of Canada...
...screechy sound track and the glaring pictures--it was easy to fall into the character of "Cactus" when the whole thing lacked realism. But Hollywood, not to be caught napping, has brought all of this to its public in typical fashion, adding new thrills with marvelous color photography. Big names, horses, Indians--what else--, and lots of extras have been thoroughly mixed, seasoned well with technicolor, and served hot in the newest Wild West thriller...
...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...