Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only planned as an eleven-minute film, but seldom has a moviemaker run into a more temperamental star. The actor was a bobcat that obviously had no intention of doing what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...
...classes, and pupils never seemed to take them seriously. Spurred by the success of the armed services with audiovisual education during World War II, the company sent out 40 experts to proselytize in schools. The experts taught pupils how to run projectors, talked thousands of teachers into experimenting with films. The E.B.F. staff went through 109 standard elementary textbooks, this year drew up detailed guides on how some of its films could be tied in with appropriate chapters. The whole idea, says E.B.F.'s President Maurice Mitchell, was to get the teacher to use "the right film...
...bottom-of-the-barrel melodrama. The plot runs along smoothly, but is not better than most plots. The actors have choice lines much of the time, but they must also bring off some pretty shoddy writing: "kiss me Richard; kiss me as if it were the last time." The film is raised to the level of superlative, escapism entertainment because fine acting gives an indifferent story meaning beyond its worth; there are no second rate performances. Casablanca is an artificial world, where people who are not people are ideal though heroes, or murderers, or females, all leading dreams-of-glory...
Fear Strikes Out. Psychiatry has a red-hot inning in this film biography of Red Sox Outfielder Jim Piersall; 24-year-old Actor Anthony Perkins scores in the title role (TIME, March...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...