Word: foxe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., customers lined up by the hundred this week to have their pictures taken. But these were not ordinary photos; they gave the illusion of being three-dimensional. The new process, called VitaVision, was the latest moneymaker of Matthew Fox, cinemaker and Bub-O-Loon man (TIME, Sept...
...Fox got into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the finished picture. By performing the same optical trick as a stereoscope, it gives the picture the illusion of depth...
...VitaVision has turned out only about a dozen cameras. Before long, Fox and Towne hope to make enough to have them snapping portraits in department stores and portrait studios all over the U.S. Soon, the company hopes to make a smaller camera to sell to amateurs, along with a home developing kit. But Fox thinks that the biggest money is in commercial advertising. The company is already making color slides of products to display in stores in specially lighted frames. Among the first customers was Noma Electric Corp. with an order for 50,000 slides...
...Foxes of Harrow (20th Century-Fox) may easily be confused with the Foxes of Hollywood. A generation before the Civil War, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), a riverboat gambler, becomes a Louisiana plantation owner. He calls the place Harrow and imports a beautiful but not very compliant vixen (Maureen O'Hara) from New Orleans, to become Mrs. Fox...
...Fox beards her husband in the Rampart Street den of his fancy lady and implores him to come back and try to save what is left of their worldly goods and of their lives. He is just getting around to the latter project, with his first cooperation from her, when, after two long hours, the picture ends. The moral appears to be that money isn't everything...