Word: grimm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. "The answer to television!" So they said when Cinerama was first shown to the public in 1952, and for a couple of years praise was supported by performance: This Is Cinerama, the first full-length picture produced in the medium, has grossed more than $26 million. But the novelty soon wore off. For one thing, the customers were obviously irritated by the imperfections of the Cinerama process: the fuzzy vertical lines between the three panels of the picture; the jiggling of the panels and their variations of color and brightness; a degree of distortion...
...approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone], of which the last is wacky enough to make up for not being Grimm-it stars Terry-Thomas as a sort of dilapidated Lancelot, Hackett as his squirrely squire, and a 53-foot, kelly-green dragon that looks like a giant bejeweled pickle...
...adult may well conclude that the savage world of childhood has been wonderfully pacified and cleaned up since he first heard those Grimm stories or Gulliver made his horrible travels. In The Happy Hunter (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), for example, Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot...
...GRIMM JON BEYER Peoria...
...little Americans over the past 13 years, the characters of Dickens, Milne and Grimm have been less familiar than a TV puppet named Howdy Doody. After giving more performances than any show in the history of network television, NBC's Howdy Doody last week left the air-going out with an hourlong, reminiscent spectacular. The final show (there will be filmed reruns) brought back such milestones in Howdy Doody's career as the 1948 election campaign, when "the President of the Kids" solidly campaigned on a platform that promised two Christmases and one school day a year, more...