Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...location shooting for a full-length crime film dealing with the University's Department of Legal Medicine will begin next week in the Yard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producer Frank Taylor announced yesterday in Hollywood...
...usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions-a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, France, Italy and sometimes even Hollywood. Some 70 of the U.S. sureseaters show this kind of film exclusively; the rest, as often as they can get them...
...Will Hollywood moviemakers go after some of this rich gravy by aiming more pictures at adults? Obviously, Hollywood's bosses cannot neglect the mass audience that keeps 19,000 U.S. theaters going. But as the sureseaters keep growing, their operators-and their surefire audiences-are hoping that some producers will be tempted...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
...chew. It raps out its accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep-grazing and grand-entrance-of-the-U.S.-Cavalry background score as the Ivy picture's subtle photography is to the antiseptic reproduction of a Hollywood sound stage...