Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, as TV news cameras moved north with the civil rights riots, their films had another effect. Ironically, television, which had given such a boost to the civil rights movement, began to obstruct it and contribute mightily to the white blacklash. "Take the case of some recent footage on the Atlanta riots," says M.I.T. Political Scientist Harold Isaacs. "What you saw was a black blur of a face...
...matter of money. The expense of flying film from Viet Nam, for example, developing it on the West Coast and then leasing a line for $3,000 an hour to transmit the pictures to New York for inclusion in a program, is likely to have an overbearing effect on news judgment. Even if the pictures do not live up to the raves cabled in by the man in the field (who probably had not seen them and was depending on his photographer's word), they may price their way onto the program...
Perhaps the emotional phrases were only to be expected in an emotional situation. And the fact is that even if Safer had gone out of his way to try to explain or excuse the Marines at Cam Ne, his words would have had little effect. To try to put pictures of one village burning into proper context, to balance that one incident against all the other activity that makes up the war in Viet Nam, would be all but impossible. On TV news, pictures make their own frontpage context; it takes a skillful script indeed to give them an added...
...would say that I always go for color, because if you want the effect of black and white you can always create it, because the camera will photograph what you give it. It's a matter of taste. The exteriors in Torn Curtain are all diffused also. We used a grey diffusor. In fact, we did that for the whole picture in order to reduce the color even more, so that we would prevent even Technicolor from cheating us. We made the reflected light with a big sheet: a large 20 by 20 sheet...
HITCHCOCK: As a matter of fact, that effect first came to me at the Chelsea Arts Ball in London, about 2 A.M., when after many libations everything seemed to get further and further away. I remembered that effect when I first came to America to make Rebecca...