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...shape of things to come is fuzzier than a static-fogged TV screen. Jittery as they are, the moviemakers know that a rapidly expanding TV needs their talents and their products. TV men concede that more than 50% and possibly as much as 90% of future TV entertainment will have to be on film. Smalltime independent film producers are already busily grinding out TV shorts. Even Skouras guardedly admitted last week to 20th Century-Fox stockholders that part of the company's studio would be devoted to making films for TV in the home. Going much further, veteran Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pandora's Box | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...judging his distance from an object; pedestrians sometimes walk smack into a truck at the curb because they suppose that the dark mass they see is a building across the street. Dr. Miles offers a tip on how to judge distance at night: the nearer an object is, the fuzzier its outlines are; move the head from side to side-the object will seem to move rapidly if it is close by, slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to See in the Dark | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Sport fans have long been accustomed to rowdy baseballers grousing about the ball they are compelled to use. As tennis-balls have grown fuzzier (to please hard-court players), some tennists have begun to grouse, too. Last week, during the Seabright Invitation Tournament, first of the four major grass-court tune-ups before the National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fuzz Ball | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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