Word: directors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes later, hundreds of customers waiting outside poured in to see a first-run movie and an extravaganza featuring the latest Music Hall wonder: electrical fireworks for its Fourth of July show. To shoot the works, Senior Producer Leonidoff, Lighting Director Eugene Braun and their technicians had spent $50,000 and almost two years on a dozen giant stage panels with 24,000 multicolored electric bulbs, 300,000 feet of wiring and a maze of machinery...
...Robert R. Newell, director of Stanford's radio-biological laboratory, polled 32 of the nation's topflight radiologists and physicists on the question : How much radiation would it take to kill a man? Last week Dr. Newell reported his findings. The radiologists gave such widely varied answers that the important question was left hanging...
...quite a bathtub, replied RFC Director Harvey J. Gunderson. The first blue and yellow Lustron houses were "a little like hotdog stands." But the newer grey and green houses, he thought, were a great improvement...
Last week Bermúdez' hole card looked more like a trey than an ace. Mexico's oil is not "vital" to U.S. defense, a consultant told the State Department. The consultant was Max W. Ball, a one-time director of the Oil and Gas Division in the Interior Department. Ball reported that Canada, where U.S.-controlled oil companies have already made rich discoveries, "offers more alluring prospects, geologically and politically, than Mexico...
...Director Mark Robson, who made the picture for RKO shortly before rocketing into the limelight with Champion (TIME, April 11), imprinted it with several signs of his fresh style. For one thing, there is an intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic...