Word: dubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After rallying and setting off on an entertainment tour of veterans hospitals--an opportunity to dub in "Sonny Boy" and "Toot-Toot-Tootsie" (among others) on the sound track--Jolson collapses again. Miss Hale, of course, appears at his bedside. Her lines are poor--she too has to spend her time telling Jolson to relax--but her performance is enough to make her a leading candidate for the worst actress of the year. Unfortunately she stays around to marry Jolson and manage his life...
...Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation announced a cheap method for adding sound to 8-and 16-mm. home movies by putting magnetic material along the edge of the film to make a sound track. With a special sound adapter on his projector, the amateur may dub in a commentary, though he won't be able to record sound as he takes the pictures. The sound can be dubbed into new & old films alike, can be erased and rerecorded in case of mistakes. Armour said that Eastman Kodak Co., Revere Camera Co., Ampro Corp., and Bell...
...splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...
...made a rule," he says, "that no editorial should be longer than a lead pencil." His brevity sometimes results in editorials so cryptic that readers dub it the "daily puzzle page." Once a politician, after reading a Wallace editorial about himself, asked a staffer: "Is he for me or against me?" The reporter couldn...
...ahead there were cries, "You're lucky, Andy." The crowd wasn't really against Andy: it was just that he was fun to badger. Twice, trying to knock down a lone pin, he committed the amazing error of guttering the ball, like any Thursday-night office league dub. The crowd jeered. Not until Wilman's last ball was bowled was the championship decided. Joe needed a strike to win, and left the tenpin standing...