Word: filming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martin concept: replace live professors wherever possible with filmed lectures, projectors and closed-circuit television rigs. The project is going strong: 919 students at Compton (enrollment: 4,800) taking a first-year psychology course need never face a flesh-and-blood lecturer, and 1,099 students in freshman algebra and English courses are film-fed most of the time. Their education is largely seen to by a woman worker in a central control room, who feeds the proper reels into the correct machines, and a faculty-member monitor, who patrols four TV theaters at a time, sees that sets work...
Breakthrough. Martin talks enthusiastically of his "breakthrough in education," scorns the experimental nature of other TV projects, says emphatically: "We are not making comparisons with live classes. We're just not in the business of conducting research. We are putting three more full courses on film, and by the end of the year we will have another three under way. This is not an experiment; we are switching over...
...film is said to be based on the life of Gladys Aylward, an English missionary. But somehow, as tricked up and blooped out to fill the CinemaScope screen, the woman's simple story comes to seem rather like a Cecil B. DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. The heroine (Bergman) is a London parlormaid who announces one day to her employer that "God wants me to go to China." The man is so startled that he lets himself be persuaded to help her get there, even though the regular missionary organizations have rejected...
...surely one of the profoundest experiences that human beings have attained, and it is not often that this experience has been so sharply dramatized as it is in the life of Gladys Aylward. Something of the woman's flame-simple, stone-actual spirit is unquestionably preserved in the film, but all too often the religious force of her example is prettily dissipated in the delusive grandeurs of the wide screen, and safely explained away in entertainingly heroic tropes and grossly commercial moments of the heart...
...Horse's Mouth (British). The film version does not quite come straight out of Novelist Joyce Gary's mouth, but Alec Guinness is almost the spitting, boozing, wheezing image of Gary's painter, a magnificently hilarious gutter genius...