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...Commandments (Paramount) 2) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (20th Century-Fox) 3) Around the World in 80 Days (Mike Todd; United Artists) 4) The Seven Wonders of the World (Independent) 5) Funny Face (Paramount) 6) Designing Woman (MGM) 7) Cinderella (Disney) 8) The Shrinking Man (Universal) 9) The Tattered Dress (Universal) 10) Twelve Angry Men (United Artists...
More than 200 production outfits in the U.S. now compete for the $80 million annual gross of the industrial movie business. The movies vary from live-action shorts to animated cartoons, e.g., Walt Disney's How to Catch a Cold, which gives scientific advice on cold prevention (courtesy of Kleenex Tissues...
Some of the best of the industrial shorts are done by John E. Sutherland, 46, a onetime scriptwriter who worked for Walt Disney and made wartime training films for the Government. He does his 10-to-45-minute shorts at the rate of about 20 a year (at a cost to the sponsor of $50,000 to $300,000 each) for such varied industrial giants as General Electric (A Is for Atom), United Fruit (Bananas? Si, Señor), American Telephone & Telegraph (The Voice Beneath the Sea), Du Pont (The Spray's the Thing), the New York Stock Exchange...
...time, through the microphoto-graphed capillaries of live animals. But as the price of admission, the audience had to face a tasteless jangle of gimmicks: a Superman-like "Hemo" to personify blood, dialect comedy, crude mechanical cartoon analogies of circulatory functions ("groceries and garbage"), and a screenful of Disney-like animals spouting slang. In a coy story-within-a-story device, a researcher (Dr. Frank Baxter) and a fiction writer (Richard Carlson) tried to make their material palatable to the cloddish cartoon animals. The total effect of Hemo was unhappily that of a choice filet mignon smothered with gobs...
...children's book. It is an adult's biography of a cat who became her pet and then her friend. May Sarton knows how to tell an adult about a cat. The usual hurdles of condescension and over-indulgence cause her no trouble. And she conspicuously avoids the Walt Disney custom of fastening human personalities onto animals. And that, in fact, is what the book is about...