Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Automatic Developer. On signal from the earth, both cameras began taking pictures on 35-mm. film that had been carefully protected from the fogging effect of cosmic rays. Exposures were automatically varied from frame to frame to make sure of some negatives with good contrast. As soon as the film was shot, it passed into a developing and fixing device that was specially designed to function properly under conditions of weightlessness. After being dried, the film went into a case to wait for transmission to earth. Some of this operation was automatic, but marks on the moving film, the Russians...
...Dreams. The moon pictures released so far look fuzzy, but experts consider them extraordinarily good, considering the fantastic difficulty of getting them at all. To laymen, the moon's far side, long populated by storytellers with strange beasts and weird civilizations, looks disappointingly like its visible side. But astronomers find it surprisingly different. They point to the comparative lack of the big, roundish, dark "seas" that are so common on its known face. The area newly pictured shows only one really big sea, which the Russians named the Sea of Dreams. A smaller sea they named...
Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine on a hunting excursion...
Convict Kinney and Psychologist Pryor are in contention for effective control of the prison population. To demonstrate his power, Kinney organizes a prison riot, his pretense being a "good new boy," who has been caught with a potato peeler hidden in a place of maximum security, and been put in solitary. Kinney spreads the word and soon "the less orderly element in this institution" have burned the chapel, organized a tuba and trumpet band around improvised barbecue pits, and taken three guards as hostages...
...Oncle (which the distributor has rendered with accuracy and consummate disrespect for Americans' linguistic prowess, as My Uncle) is Jacques Tati's sequel to his immensely successful Mr. Hulot's Holiday. The newer movie retains as its hero, Hulot, the man of zany good sense and good will pitted against a world that takes itself awfully seriously but happens to be insane. Last time, Hulot attacked the concept of the holiday; now he is after modernism...