Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infra-red engineers are not permitted to tell how their apparatus works. There seem to be several types. The picture of the Republic plant looks as if it were made by some sort of scanning technique. Servo says that its instruments take their pictures on ordinary photographic film, first translating the heat image into a light image. If necessary, the instruments can be made sensitive to very small differences of temperature. An object that is one degree warmer or colder than its environment is detectable under field conditions. In the laboratory much smaller contrasts are sufficient. A woman...
Soap-Bubble Film. The density of an atmosphere detected in this way depends partly on what gases it contains, and the radio waves give no such information. Elsmore points out that the moon's gravitation is too feeble to hold comparatively light gases like the oxygen and nitrogen in the earth's atmosphere. Any gas molecules that hang around the moon for long must be much heavier. But the moon may have in addition a temporary atmosphere made of helium and argon given off by radioactivity in the moon's rocks and of other light gases escaping...
...features of space. If the earth's atmosphere were compressed to the density of steel, it would form an armor plating 49 in. thick, but the moon's meager atmosphere, compressed in the same way, would be only one-millionth as thick as the thinnest soap-bubble film...
Five years ago Charlie Chaplin settled with his family, in Switzerland and self-exile, a bitter man. Convinced that he had been persecuted by McCarthyism, Red-liner Chaplin decided to deprive the U.S. of one of the few authentic geniuses produced by the movies. Last week a new Chaplin film, A King in New York, which may never be shown in the U.S., had its world première in London. Cries of "Good old Charlie!" and "Isn't he sweet?" greeted Chaplin from a dressy charity crowd in diamonds and dinner jackets. But though the crowd liked Chaplin...
...named the boy's parents as Communists. They have left the party but refuse to finger their friends and are sentenced to two years in prison. Finally, fed up with FBI "persecution" of the boy, the king decides to "sit it out in Europe," suggests as the film ends that the "hysteria" in the U.S. is a passing phase...