Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes...
Reacting against this tendency, Piel's Inc. recently instituted a series of cartoon ads featuring Harry and Bert, which attempted a "soft sell." These proved popular enough to inspire imitators, but there was a limit to the trend. It was easy enough to be amusing about beer, but hard to "soft sell" a product such as aspirin or laxatives. The public must be shown what misery results when these aids are not employed, and consequently, schematic diagrams of digestive systems are exhibited with appropriate sound effects...
Langer also pointed out that there were a number of professors here who would like to spend more time in the Soviet Union than the present 30-day limit on visas allowed. He estimated that approximately 20 persons from the University had taken advantage of the limited visa during the past two years...
...estimated $2,500,000 of his personal sugar fortune. Throughout the countryside, well-armed election workers were busily canvassing voters for campaign funds, with their guns suggestively visible. Complaints of pre-election fraud, terrorism and violence poured in on the Commission of Elections, which plaintively asked all candidates to limit their armed bodyguards to a maximum of four each...
...Time Limit (Heath Productions; United Artists), based on the Broadway play (TIME, Feb. 6, 1956) and capably adapted to the screen by Actor-turned-Director Karl Maiden, is the best picture made to date on the subject of brainwashing. The presiding virtue of the film is that, unlike others of its kind (The Prisoner, The Rack, 1984), it does not prejudge its case...