Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the most of the movie medium as a valid and unique art form. No-one but Welles would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction and camera work are virtuosic throughout: his untiring inventiveness is ever apparent; and he is a master of black-and-white, from a close...
Bate said that the stress on "cultural history" is an attempt to give the field more focus and to prevent possible duplication by the History and English departments...
...improved CinemaScope was demonstrated by soth Century-Fox Film Corp. The film is first shot on a 55-mm. negative, then reduced to the standard 35-mm. size used by conventional projectors. The scale-down reduces the grainy effect of the pictures, puts the background almost as clearly in focus as the foreground. Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck claims that "we have eliminated the bothersome fall-off in focus on the sides of the screen, and totally eliminated distortion...
...only complaint was from a Mount Auburn street hostess. She said that her party lost its focus and flavor when the lovely glow from her electric fireplace snuffed...
...respecter of persons, the epidemic laid low both the head dietitian and Miss Katherine Fernstrom, Moors housemother. Focus of the infection is believed to have been a Thursday evening supper of Swedish meatballs, long a staple in the Radcliffe diet...