Word: filming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost Boundaries (Film Classics), first published as a real-life drama in Reader's Digest, described the tragic dilemma of a fair-skinned Negro family in a small New England town who for years had "passed" as whites. The father was a prosperous doctor and a pillar of the community, the mother an active worker in civic affairs. The children, unaware of their antecedents, were normal, happy-go-lucky American school kids-until the day their father, whose secret had been exposed by U.S. naval intelligence, told them the truth. From there on, they became in their own minds...
...reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every year." The creators may get their big chance when the Government finally splits theater ownership from production. ¶The moviemakers recognize that a low-budget "special audience" film, e.g., Home of the Brave, can turn a profit without a mass audience, but Hollywood is geared to supply the bigger audience, where the bigger profit lies. ¶Hollywood clings to its self-censoring
...rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more adult pictures. But the men from Hollywood did some buck-passing to the audience, too: the public perpetuates the star system, which keeps budgets...
...Esther Williams, is a musical that is brilliantly Technicolored, lavishly staged and gowned, blatantly expensive and extravagantly dull. Esther Williams is widely publicized as an amphibian attraction,* and her special gifts are apparent when she is photographed in a swim suit or in a pool. But most of this film's action takes place in street dress, well away from the water. As a result, large chunks of it seem somewhat pointless...
Home of the Brave. An outspoken anti-prejudice film about the crack-up of a Negro G.I. (TIME...