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...American movie-watcher is occasionally duped by hand-held camera into feeling that what he is watching is reality. But those who see a slick Hollywood color job directed and lead-roled by John Wayne know different. About every fifth person walking out of The Green Berets was giving a detailed description to his friends about how it was filmed in Georgia, how it cost $3,000,000, and how it would've cost lost more if the army hadn't lent them most of the stuff...
Just two years later, Physicist Maiman used the Townes-Schawlow theory and built the world's first working laser, a small, hand-held instrument that shot out bursts of brilliant red light. Instead of a gas, Maiman's laser used a synthetic ruby crystal grown in a bath of molten aluminum oxide. In pure form, the aluminum oxide crystal is colorless and transparent. But a pinch of chromium added to the bath as an impurity gives the resulting crystals their characteristic ruby-red hue and supplies the chromium atoms (one for every 5,000 aluminum atoms) that cause...
...ground level. In no more than 20 years, Physicist Schawlow predicts, the laser will be a common tool "in the office, in the factory, and in the home, where it could be used for peeling potatoes." Or, he says, as he casually lights a book of matches with a hand-held laser, "it might even be used as a pilot light for kitchen stoves." To prove that his predictions are not as far-out as they seem, Schawlow has built and will soon market a laser eraser, a model of which he has already attached to his own typewriter. When...
...cycles, Pall Mall cigarettes, and assorted brand names are shown on TV sets, dropped on tables, and exhibited shamelessly throughout. The exteriors are bleached-out process shots taken on different days with no attempt made to reconcile light changes. When a little action is necessary, Polanski drags out the hand-held camera for some shaky realism (catch Hitchcock filming violence with a hand-held camera!); and repeatedly, Polanski substitutes tight close-ups for style. If nothing else, Rosemary's Baby is ugly--aesthetically derelict, the groping of a bombed-out mind...
...central purpose is best defined by shots where the boy alters the light conditions of a room by playing meditatively with the settings on a three-way bulb. Herba makes difficult things look easy; Stranger, for its effortless appearance, is remarkably stylized, proving an entirely successful blend of hand-held and static movement, zoom and fixed-focal-length photography, day-and-night and interior-and-exterior footage--a true synthesis which creates a film reality...