Word: makers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contempt for most classroom cinema is justified, but four new color films on chemistry-two for high schools and two, still in production, for advanced college study-should do much to wipe it out. The producer is Hollywood Film Maker John Sutherland, who has reeled off award-winning documentaries, among them the 1954 cancer film, Horizons of Hope, as well as binsful of eye-scratching TV commercials and industrial gong beaters. Sutherland's chemistry films, his first purely educational projects, are concentrated (about 15 minutes) doses of basic science, without musical scores or might-of-industry hoopla. They...
...reworking begins. When the first classes see the two $50.000 films next spring, nine months of painstaking effort will have gone into them. Sample: frequency of the vibration of the atoms within the molecules is calculated on computers, scaled down to slow motion. Says enthusiastic, new-fledged Film Maker Hildebrand: "We're dealing with complex motions and time effects-different molecules doing different things. We explain each molecule before we combine it into the molecule complex. The motion picture is the ideal medium...
...German press lifted the well-kept secret of the Hanseatic's financial backers, revealed that the Hamburg-Atlantic Line is 60% owned by Greek Shipper Nicos Vernicos-Eugenides, president of Home Lines, one of the world's biggest transatlantic carriers, and 40% owned by wealthy German Cigarette Maker Philipp F. Reemtsma. Vernicos and Reemtsma put up $2,400,000 of their own money, borrowed the rest from German banks, got the big Hamburg-American Line (which has 41 freighters, one passenger ship) to manage the Hanseatic. In a poll of transatlantic traffic, they discovered a trend to tourist...