Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riviera, Amateur Painter Merle Oberon dropped into Lord Beaverbrook's villa to show one of her seascapes to Amateur Painter Winston Churchill. "What are those little white specks?" asked Churchill. "Sailing boats," replied Merle, unabashed. Said Churchill, recovering gallantly: "You have a nice eye for color." Then the two looped arms and went off for a swim...
...past two years, CBS has been the front runner in the Color TV sweepstakes. Only two weeks ago, Government bigwigs popped their eyes at a CBS color demonstration in Washington. Cried Colorado's Senator Ed Johnson: "No one who sees color is ever going to be satisfied with ordinary . . . television again...
...last week CBS looked less like a sure thing to win. The Radio Corporation of America (owner of NBC) loudly trumpeted that it too had a new color system. RCA's system is all-electronic, while CBS' is mechanical. RCA claims that its programs can be viewed in all their varicolored splendor on present sets, once they are fitted with a color adapter. Most important, RCA claims that its color telecasts can be received on ordinary sets as a black-and-white image (on ordinary sets, CBS color telecasts are a featureless blurring and streaking...
...stretch-running threat of RCA might mean the loss of nine years' work and $3,500,000 in color research. But CBS President Frank Stanton rallied gamely. It is important, said Stanton, "to have color TV come quickly by the best available system . . ." Looking ahead to this month's important hearings before FCC, he added: "CBS color TV has been proved through numerous tests and demonstrations . . . We will look forward to studying similar tests and demonstrations of the latest RCA system...
...decided what we want, off we go-a taxidermist or curator to trap and skin the animals, an accessories man, and a background man like myself." For the beavers, they went to central Michigan, stayed two weeks. Wilson made on-the-spot paintings and supplemented them with color photos. The accessories man collected shrubs and stumps for the foreground, things he could later reproduce in paper, wax and cellulose acetate...