Word: crudely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
...hard to contain one's anger when viewing the fuzzy projections of fuzzy minds and crude fingers which are forced upon a skeptical public by ... art critics, when the work of such able men as Norman Rockwell is sneered at as "commercial...
...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
...Stirling "air" engine (originally patented by Robert and James Stirling of Scotland in 1816) was born in the wrong century. Its principle (power from expanding hot air) was good, but the crude materials and engineering methods of the time made it too clumsy and inefficient to be widely used...
Audiences howl at such simplehearted reminders of the days when screen comedy was really crude and sometimes brilliant. If anyone could give them back the genuine thing, he might soon be the richest man in Hollywood...