Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Producer David O. Selznick announced the formation of his own television film unit, which will begin producing "in the near future...
Blowup. The current issue of Aviation Week contains what it claims is a picture of the speedy Russian plane itself (see cut). The drawing was made from a blown-up motion picture film smuggled from behind the Iron Curtain. The original photographs, the magazine says, were taken with a telescopic lens while the plane was being tested, and "arrived in this country by a circuitous process...
Some movie box offices had taken a "nose dive," Variety reported, and there was at least one reason for it: "film shoppers were cagey...
...Mediterranean sumptuousness. The tunes and lyrics are good grade-B Porter. Miss Garland's tense, ardent straightforwardness is sometimes very striking; and Gene Kelly does an arrestingly ambitious job. But Kelly's work is also a fair measure of the failure of this ambitious, highly stylized film...
...Color Film. Hollywood finally got a full-length look at General Aniline & Film Corp.'s three-color process (Ansco Color) in the independent movie, Sixteen Fathoms Deep. As the color is incorporated in the negative, making it possible to record it with an ordinary black & white camera, General Aniline hopes that Ansco will eventually compete with Technicolor. In some Sixteen Fathoms scenes Ansco Color, like the new Rouxcolor of Paris' Roux brothers (TIME, June 7), seemed far more natural than the more expensive Technicolor. But in other scenes Ansco Color was washed out, and faces were often only...