Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stung by the Beaver's bite, ITA Director Sir Robert Fraser hit back, called the attacks "anti-American feeling thinly disguised." American films, said Fraser, do not account for more than 14% of the total running, while ITA 13 selling British films to U.S. TV at a chip that pays for all U.S. imports. "And remember this," Fraser told a London Rotary Club. "Americans have acquired such a mastery of TV film techniques that we can apply no better stimulus to our producers than to let them see how it is done...
Last week the Naval Research Laboratory told about its new system of depositing the glowing phosphor as a transparent film by vacuum evaporation. The purpose of the project was to improve airplane instruments, but the transparent phosphor can be used for TV too. The picture will form as usual when the set is turned on, but light coming from the room will be reflected very weakly. Most of it will pass into the interior of the tube and be lost. So the picture will stay sharp and clear with full daylight shining on the tube...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall, and 25-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Pans with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...
...biggest fault of the film comes from this everybody-has-a-story approach to all the characters. The life histories and present predicaments of each minor character intrude on the main action too much and tend to distract attention from the principals. You leave the theater confused by incidental episodes and uncertain about the director and script writer's purpose. If their purpose was to make a movie exactly life-like by packing it with interesting but irrelevant happenings, they have come dangerously close to succeding. Perhaps the greatest criticism of all cinematographic realists is that they are not selective...