Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8,000 film-illustrated lectures, formed an accurate picture of the world for millions of Americans in the leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with...
...Captain from Koepenick (Real-Film; D.C.A.) is a dandy German joke that manages to be only intermittently funny. Now undergoing its third version as a movie, the film is derived from a 1931 play by Carl (The Blue Angel) Zuckmayer, who co-authored the present screenplay. It is the story of a lonely, jobless German shoemaker whose drab world turns into a fairyland of wealth, popularity and authority as soon as he dons the dashing and highly illegal uniform of an army captain...
...course of its rehearsals, the chorus has also been preparing an hour-long educational television film, to be directed by WGBH and distributed throughout the nation by the Educational Television Center of Ann Arbor, Mich. The purpose of the film is to demonstrate the training of a chorus from the beginning rehearsals to the final concert. Two-thirds of the project has already been filmed in rehearsals. The last third of the film will be taken from the live television performance of the concert...
...food as a proposition and gets so vexed that two full days pass before she surrenders her virginity. Then he marries her. But the regime that he and his countrymen have created will not leave him alone. His old professor (played with austere dignity by Author Remarque, in his film debut) lives in terror of the SS; a Jewish friend hides out miserably in a bombed-out cathedral; a Gestapo officer hands him a cigar box containing the ashes of his bride's father. Worst of all, the Allied air forces refuse to let bygones be bygones, systematically pound...
...than that he is afraid he will be shot if he tries to desert. He gets shot anyway by a Russian guerrilla whom he has just saved from execution. His death only begs the issue. In sentimentalizing the simple German soldier's loving heart and patriotic devotion, the film floats emptily away from its central theme: Isn't there a place where taking orders stops and personal responsibility begins...