Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driver tapped out a signal on the back door and an old lady let me into a room that looked like a set for a Hitchcock murder mystery - complete even to a single, weak, bare light bulb suspended from the ceiling and throwing weird shadows on the cracked walls...
...atmosphere appears to be transparent, but this is a partial illusion. Man's most useful senses (sight and hearing) are designed to respond to waves (light and sound) which the air allows to pass. Many other waves and speeding particles from space are stopped or weakened by the atmosphere. To detect these mysterious travelers, scientists must rocket their instruments above the "opaque...
...plastics products which also won prizes in the competition, ranged from hardware (garden hose) and building materials (wall tiles, translucent plastic-block walls, vinyl floors, fluorescent light fixtures) to gadgets (harmonicas, toy blocks, perfume atomizers) and artificial hands, complete with hair...
...have not caught up with demand. Though many a Gloomy Gus predicted that plastics would glut the market when scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain that they are clammy and uncomfortable...
...film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept it moving on his smallish, crowded set as freely as a dancer. Furniture and whole chunks...