Word: detail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest turn in British tactics is shown in an exciting sequence of Commandos training. One Commando attack is shown in naming detail: the destruction of fuel dumps on Norway's Lofoten Islands. This is the most significant fact about New Soldiers. For this picture, the latest in the Canadian Government Film Unit's World in Action series, talks solely in terms of attack. The first of the series (Churchill's Island), made over a year ago, spoke only of defense...
Griffin and these 100-odd resident U.S. correspondents do a very important job for us. They scout for stories whose importance we might otherwise overlook; they telegraph local background and on-the-spot detail whenever an event of national interest breaks in their bailiwicks...
...Detail-ridden Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board, gave trusted Deputy James S. Knowlson full power over priorities, turned WPB's machine-tool branch into a full-fledged division...
...faults, dramatically Ambersons is a great motion picture, adult and demanding. Artistically, it is a textbook of advanced cinema technique. The novel use of sidelighting and exaggerated perspective that made Kane seem unlike any other movie floods Ambersons with the same revealing eloquence, examining faces, bathrooms, streets, the cluttered detail of the Ambersons' magnificence, from a viewpoint so fresh that it creates a visual suspense in the very act of clarification. Once the camera takes a 350-degree turn round the ballroom at George's home-for-the-holidays party, darting in to pick up revealing scraps...
...Trucks. Any scheme to employ planes on such a grand scale is as heroic in composition as a Beethoven symphony, as knotty in detail as differential calculus. It is a task for poetic imagination far grander than Tennyson's in Locksley Hall, which 100 years ago "saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. . . ." And it is an even greater practical task. But the argosies are being planned. The Army says that by the end of this summer cargo cartage by air will be the biggest single...