Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard movie will have a "sneak preview" this afternoon at 4:30 in Lamont before it departs on its nation-wide tour. The film has undergone some revisions in its sound track, but today's scheduled showing indicates that it is now ready for release...
...tracking camera uses an ultra fast f 1 lens with a 22-inch aperture. The image is photographed on a strip of 55 mm. CinemaScope film about one foot long. The camera can fix the satellite within one or two seconds of arc in space and within one thousandth of a second in time...
...Harvard movie, "To the Age that is Waiting," will be shown at cities along the route. It is narrated by President Pusey and Dean Bundy, with a script by novelist John P. Marquand, '15. The film includes shots of some of the "greats" of Harvard's past--Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant, professors Kittredge, Copeland, and Hooton, as well as "John the Orange Man" and the "goodies" who cleaned the student rooms. The film also shows the work of modern Harvard scholars and scientists, and the growing needs of the college...
...script is marvelously clever without being even dull although the real interest of the film lies in its really top-notch acting. The art of lampooning without bitterness, cruelty or overstatement seems to be a peculiarly British talent and The Man in the White Suit is a good case in point...
...nuances with the camera and in picking English types with an air of reality-harried bureaucrats, laboratory assistants who help themselves to a wee drop from a retort now and then, and other pungent touches. Particularly amusing is the chemical apparatus that serves as a running gag throughout the film. Also sprightly is Benjamin Frenkel's music...