Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canadian edition of TIME is printed in Chicago, the other three from film flown to our presses in Havana, Paris and Tokyo, from which points the magazines are air-speeded each week to every corner of the globe...
Sometimes the scholarly alms-asking goes wildly awry; one outfit mailed out letters advising businessmen that "we shall be happy to carry any product which, due to its distinctive shape or color, would be easy to publicize in our TV film without actually mentioning its trade name." Addresses got shuffled, and the letter was sent to a venerable trust fund whose officers were considering (but immediately ceased to consider) a request to support the group's lofty scientific aims...
...Sixth Happiness. A sentimental, overlong but often moving film, not unlike a Cecil DeMille version of Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, with Ingrid Bergman as a missionary in China...
...West Coast for six months at a time. In connection with his Hollywood experience, he recalls once being asked by producer Sol Wurtzel to do a screenplay for Dante's Inferno. "That requires a lot of research," Behrman replied. "Oh, no," said Wurtzel, "you can see the silent film." Behrman's most recent screenplay is the new Ben Hur: "there are 126 camels and 126 writers, and they all have about the same effect on the picture...
...this time, the Life magazine photographer had all but run out of film. He asked a couple of observers to stand as silhouettes at the border of his prospective picture. "That'll make it look as though the picture was hard to get," he said with some satisfaction. "It's always better if it looks as though you had to shoot over the heads of people or through people...