Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, after enduring near-100° temperatures and a rainstorm that drenched him to the skin, Photographer Wayman's patience was rewarded, and his color film caught the full flight, from start to finish, of the second test flight of the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistics missile, the Atlas. Hours later, the film was on its way to New York for processing, and the following day the pictures were in Chicago being engraved and printed. This week, less than seven days after the event, they appear in TIME, the first color photographs of the Atlas in flight. See NATIONAL...
...uninitiated watchers the flight seemed a total failure-but not to missilemen. During those awesome 35 seconds, cameras and telemetering devices were recording valuable flight data on miles of film and tape. "As the surgeons say," a sad-eyed missile scientist said bravely, "the operation was a success but the patient died. We got data on the three miles of flight. The next big bird that flies may live a while longer...
...situation from Washington and Little Rock, NBC commanded higher ratings than the popular To Tell the Truth and Broken Arrow on the other networks. An hour later, CBS's news crew turned in the week's best TV roundup: a half-hour wrapping together of film clips of mob violence and barely dry shots of the arriving paratroopers and President Eisenhower's speech with a background summary by Walter Cronkite in Manhattan, on-the-spot interviewing by Howard K. Smith in Little Rock, and analysis by Eric Sevareid from Washington...
...these things happened just as planned. Seven hours after launching, the observatory parachuted down, apparently undamaged, near Athens, Wisconsin, 150 miles away. A Navy truck guided by radio tracking, pounced on it promptly and brought the 35-mm. film back for developing. When the first pictures came from the darkroom, Dr. Schwarzschild pronounced them the best ever taken...
...characters are given fairly bright dialogue, and both their words and their action often openly satirize English customs. The whole film is one of Britain's better exercises in comic style, and for Sim himself, in his familiar genre, it is a tour de force...