Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passport to Pimlico" is a British situational comedy designed quite obviously to humor a British public that is sick of rationing and restrictions. An unexploded German bomb suddenly blows up, revealing a treasure cache in which there is a document proving that the borough of Pimlico in London does not belong to Britain. Consequently, police protection, ration cards and other legal instruments become suspended, and the inhabitants, for a few days, are sovereigns unto themselves. Though Stanley Holloway offers some excellent touches as the exofficio mayor of Pimlico, most of the scenes are only moderately amusing to an American audience...
...same time he passes up the chance to document the small, disagreeable details of prison life. Notable exception: a chilling little scene in which Actress Colbert gobbles a messy stew filched out of the officers' garbage, while speculating cheerfully over what she is eating...
...films until he now ranks with pre Stromboli Rossellini. De Siea's "The Bicycle Thief" comes to Boston after being honored as the best foreign film of 1949 by the New York critics, and receiving several other American and European awards. "The Bicycle Thief" is an excellent, occasionally brilliant document of the plight of "the little man." In all the noise about "the world's most acclaimed motion picture," however, one is apt to forget that it has short comings, like most other films...
Then he read parts of Fuchs's confession which, the Crown attested, Fuchs signed as "true" (other parts were withheld for reasons of security). It was a remarkable psychological document of Warped, brilliant intelligence and twisted morality...
...President of the U.S., Congress, state governors and 7,000 editors, educators, clergymen and rabbis all over the U.S. went free copies of the remarkable document-a 52-page book, Human Relations in Modern Business (Prentice-Hall; 80¢). The work that went into the book had been started three years before by Robert Wood Johnson, chairman of Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings), wartime vice chairman of WPB, chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corp. and longtime spokesman for enlightened business policies...