Word: epical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Was Won. Cinerama turns from picture postcards to epic storytelling with a spectacle worthy of its wide-screen wonders. Sodbusters, Indians, outlaws, good guys, and a thousand thundering buffaloes, all but shake the balcony off its hinges...
...U.S.S. Helena. Writes Hughes: "Attentively attending almost all the discussions of those three days, I found in them a somewhat dismaying contrast between their actual substance and their public appearance. To the world's news agencies, flashing their crisp reports across the globe, these meetings constituted 'the epic mid-Pacific conference' . . . And in succeeding years, there were widespread rumors and reports of the portentous 'strategic decisions' supposedly made aboard the Helena. There were, in fact, no such decisions. Nor did anyone present delude himself on the matter...
...Cinerama, that megalomyopic miracle, has come a long way since it took theater audiences over the top on its initial roller-coaster ride in 1952 and infected the nation's shopkeepers with an "o-rama" syndrome. Having won its spurs at Angkor Wat, it now tries an epic with a plot. No other screen could contain all the bang-banging, choo-chooing, galloping, whooping and thundering that three directors (Henry Hathaway, John Ford and George Marshall), 13 stars, ten costars, 12,000 extras, and 1,000 buffaloes have done in How the West Was Won. Even the troublesome match...
...content with getting the girls to just buy the records," says Bob Morgan, an Epic Records producer. "You've got to really move in there with the weepers so that she'll have to possess the record. She's got to need it to explain herself...
Miss Gish is most frequently remembered for her performance in Orphans of the Storm, made in 1921 in Mamaroneck, New York. This sentimental epic of the French Revolution was one of the last independent productions of David Wark Griffith, inventor of the "spectacular" and a pioneer of film direction in America. The actress recalls one scene that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched...