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Word: crespinel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood warned Loss that Cinecolor was a bad risk. The company was on the verge of bankruptcy; it had no big clients and "a 15-year record of mistakes." But it also had some assets: 1) a couple of able technicians, Alan Gundelfinger and William Crespinel, who had founded the company in 1932; and 2) a process which could produce "rushes" (unedited film) in color film 24 hours after it was taken and at a cost of only 20 to 25% more than black & white film. Moreover, the movies could be taken with ordinary film cameras and with black & white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES: Profit through Loss | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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