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More and better incubators were just what the doctors ordered, and by the late 1930s a steadily increasing number of premature babies was surviving the dangerous weeks after birth. But by 1942, medical statisticians were already calculating the cost. Of premature babies who weighed 4 Ibs. or less at birth...
The Robe would have been a good movie in two-dimensional black and white. In CinemaScope, which uses a wide-angle lens to throw its picture on a curved screen nearly three times the normal width, it all but overpowers the eye with spectacular movie murals of slave markets, imperial...
And yet, taken as a whole, the film is inferior to the book. For while Author Carson saw the sea as a poet might, with the inward eye, Director Irwin Allen sees it mostly through a very expensive anastigmatic lens. Though the movie is all about water, it strangely does...
...shaped picture to the eye (or camera) covering 360° around the horizon, and practically to the zenith. This picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane for all-in-focus effect . . . A few problems remain (beside the presently unsolved nicker effects, etc., emphasized by 3-D), such as-which is the best way offstage? Into a subterranean...
...Cataract victims who have had the lens removed from the eye can be given near-normal vision with contact lenses, which may be of plastic, two Manhattan specialists said. Two others, from Philadelphia's Wills Eye Hospital, reported success in 14 of the first 18 U.S. cases of cataract treated by slipping a plastic lens into the eyeball itself (TIME...