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...flashbacks, Donat portrays the haphazard life of William Friese-Greene, inventor of the first motion picture camera (the magic box). Friese-Greene was infatuated with the idea of making slides move both black and white and color. This idea soon became an obsession which dominated his life. Giving a superb sympathetic performance, Donat seems to mellow with his character; white hair, wrinkles, and shuffling step untobtinsively blend into his part. Even Donat's voice slowly acquires an appropriately wistful tone...
...French--Consulate yesterday conferred the Medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor to Howard H. Aiken '35, associate professor of Applied Mathematics, and the inventor of a new electronic calculating machine. The medal was one of a number awarded by the Consulate to outstanding New Englanders at Armistice Day ceremonies...
...Michael Redgrave to Emlyn Williams, in bit roles. It was produced by Ronald (Great Expectations') Neame, directed by John (Seven Days to Noon) Boulting, photographed in Technicolor by Jack (Red Shoes) Cardiff, and adapted by Eric Ambler from Ray Allister's Friese-Greene, Close-Up of an Inventor. The result is a cinebiography that is more of a blurred long shot than a clear closeup...
...bumbling, Mr. Chips style, Donat plays the idealistic inventor with a good deal of warmth and wit. Best sequence: Friese-Greene excitedly demonstrating his newly perfected magic box by projecting flickering Hyde Park scenes in his laboratory in the dead of night to an audience of one: a stolid, bewildered London bobby, pungently played by Laurence Olivier...
Take for example the patriarchial hero of "East of Eden," Samuel Hamilton. Talented as a blacksmith and inventor, Samuel also "had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul...