Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of EVR is a tightly wound film, 8.75 mm. wide, that can store an astounding 180,000 separate frames on one seven-inch roll. Previously, no one had been able to compress so much film and still preserve its ability to produce clear playbacks. While working on a CBS lunar-photography project for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goldmark devised a high-resolution film that can carry millions of bits of electronic information. That film has led to an even more startling breakthrough. Goldmark and his colleagues have managed to treat black-and-white film with electronic color...
...inamorata, "Childie" McNaught, is a red-cheeked pippin of a girl (Susannah York) with a mind that has stopped and a body that will not quit. Their relationship, on the skids before the film begins, collapses utterly when George learns that she is to be written out of the program. The bearer of the sad tidings is a venomous BBC executive, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), who doesn't give Childie a second look-she is too busy with the first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child...
...apartment, the screeching lovers' quarrels. Mercy and Childie have one love scene of unprecedented explicitness, but even that is not let alone. George catches the lovers en flagrante, throwing open the door in the manner of a Joan Crawford melodrama. In the fervent exploration of once-forbidden terrain, film makers are understandably attracted to themes of homosexuality. Still, treating lesbians as if they were only men in skirts is like treating children as if they were only small adults. Both attitudes are false to facts and dishonest to drama...
...LION IN WINTER is not a film; it's a filmed play. So was A Man For All Seasons, but there the adopted medium was at worst unobtrusive, and at best working dextrously for the fine script. The script of Lion in Winter rarely ventures outside the pretentious except to become ludicrous. And the film medium actually works against the script, making explicit the faults which, on a stage, could have remained vague...
...advertising blurbs attest, The Lion in Winter has found great popularity in certain circles--the Ladies Home Journal calls it "The smash success." They must have found the film comforting, because it seems to show that even in the twelfth century Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine held Dear Abby attitudes. "I want the Aquitaine for John!" "I want it for Richard!" Nyaahnyaah. Like a medieval collection of Games People Play, but they play them so fast we lose track. Back and forth, one by one every character confronts every other and asks point-blank "Why didn't you love...