Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chelsea. "I've been through a lot," she once explained after a tardy appearance. "We love you, Judy," the audience replied. Born Francess Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minn., to parents in vaudeville, she made her stage debut at 3 and became a national legend at 17 in the film The Wizard of Oz by singing of her longing to be somewhere Over the Rainbow. She attempted suicide in 1950 but then had wildly successful concert comebacks and won Oscar nominations for dramatic roles in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She married her fifth husband, Mickey Deans...
...more improbable ways to produce a TV program would be to arm 75 children with super-8-mm. movie cameras and a supply of film, give them brief operating instructions and send them out into the world to shoot whatever subjects they choose. Yet that is exactly what NBC's Children's Theater did last April in one of TV's more imaginative experiments. The result was as remarkable as the concept: this week's television production of "As I See It," a stunningly perceptive child's-eye view of life...
Enhanced by Bill Cosby's performance as host, the hour-long Children's Theater special concentrated on segments of the film shot by ten fledgling cameramen, aged 5½ to 12. In the best sequence, Eddie Betancourt, the 12-year-old son of a farm worker, created a haunting atmosphere by juxtaposing scenes of living and dead birds encountered on his photographic tour. Christopher Merry, a disarming six-year-old from Los Angeles, used both his own drawings and shots of lush foliage to make a delightful film about an imaginary island he would some day like...
Translations have killed more classics than censorship. The Boys of Paul Street, by Ferenc Molnar, is a favorite throughout Europe, but the awkward English version has kept it unreadable in the U.S. for nearly half a century. This film of the 1927 novel belatedly corrects the neglect with a careful, correct adaptation...
...schoolboys as a microcosm is hardly new. From The Lord of the Flies to Young Torless to If . . . . the metaphor is made and remade until it seems ready to become a staple of film culture, like the western. The Boys of Paul Street, a joint U.S.-Hungarian production, maintains the tradition without illuminating it. Still, its decelerated rhythms and nostalgic photography provide a rare glimpse of that era when good and evil were different colors and student protest was a whispered grievance in a corridor...