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...color fidelity" and "texture." It described RCA color itself as "soft," reported the system to be "exceedingly complex," and noted that a "time error of 1/11,000,000 of a second results in color contamination." As for the CTI system, it was "unduly complex"; it had a "serious line-crawl problem, its picture texture was not satisfactory," and there was "great doubt" of CTI's compatibility...
They play the mysteries of darkest Africa to the hilt. The camera pans over hundreds of blank and weirdly painted native faces; the soundtrack features native drums, beating endlessly; and there are cannibals, shricking animals, and a full complement of snakes, spiders, and other slimy things with legs which crawl. Since the majority of the actors are real natives, their own inscrutability adds to the general air of mystery...
...home, anyone seeing the warning flash should drop to the floor, with his back to the window, or crawl behind or under a table or desk...
...less than the average half-hour TV network drama show), McCleery solved the problem of sets by not having any. "If we need a wall, we just let the absence of light stand for a wall," he explains. In the resulting gloom, his cameramen have been known to crawl around on hands and knees, with matches or flashlights, to find their camera positions. But, though the staging may be dark, the actors are highlighted. "I'm trying to paint pictures with faces," says McCleery. "You can only do it by getting so close that you can see what...
...soldier story. henry Fletcher ("Hurry to Get there") is in the great tradition of high-school literary magazines right down to the last "yeah" of his criminal escape story. I offer this quote "His eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce (". . . casting a net around Harvard-Yale Andover Exeter Groton Amherst Williams in Doe speramus.") is appalling...