Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November to May. They are making the last of six expeditions to the Bushmen who live in the Kalahari desert. The scientists are especially interested in the Kung tribe, and they have already made records of native scenes, music, and language on 250,000 feet of colored motion picture film and hundreds of feet of tape recordings...
Just out of the Navy after a hitch as a frogman, Jon Lindbergh, 25-year-old son of Charles, signed on for more of the same-as a Navy officer in the cloak-and-flipper film Underwater Warrior...
...carrier rocket over Britain. As the slowly shifting orbit carried Sputnik over the east coast of the U.S., hundreds of early risers in New England saw the sunlit speck sweep across the predawn sky. Some saw two moving objects, the brighter of which was probably the carrier. Shot on film at Baltimore by WJZ-TV using a camera with a secret Bendix light amplifier, the spectacle was broadcast to the U.S. over Westinghouse TV stations...
During the six-week assignment, the rebels let them film anything, even offered to stage for them a real ambush with real French victims. "We refused, of course, on moral grounds," Kearns told the TV audience. CBS made up for that gap by opening Algeria Aflame like a bombshell with a memorable year-old sequence of an actual ambush. What emerged from the new footage was a sympathetic closeup of intense, fiery-eyed Algerians who endure their wounded, their bombed-out meshtas, the homelessness of their families, to fight for their cause as tough, well-trained soldiers. Among them...
Technically, the production displays all the excellence which comes as a matter of course to Hollywood. There is some fine landscape photography filmed in yet another new process, which is in no way distinguishable from Cinemascope. If a few million dollars less had been spent, if an hour had been cut from the first part of the film, and if a literate writer had been hired, MGM might have come up with a tolerably decent movie. But as a rival to Gone With the Wind--which it obviously is supposed to be--Raintree County just will...