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They honored Mal Holmes at Harvard night at the Pops, and the Class tendered ovation after ovation for the Boston Orchestra--but the biggest cheer of the night came when classmate Johnny Green, famous songwriter and currently musical director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, took over from regular conductor Arthur Fiedler...
...named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
...Universal, Bossman Bill Goetz put his shops to work 20 hours a day on a 3-D camera, then sped into production on a work he felt was suited to the new medium: It Came from Outer Space. Fox announced three pictures to be made in 3-D, and Metro declared...
...research it had developed at last its own wide-screen system-with "stereophonic sound." Paramount came out with Paravision, to be shown on a screen 1.66 times as wide as it is high (as compared with 1.33 to 1 for the traditional screen and 2.66 to 1 for CinemaScope). Metro sedately favored 1.75 to 1, and Universal went...
...have to be torn down, no costly lenses bought. Best of all, the backlog would be safe. Almost all the old pictures could be projected to fill the new, not-so-wide screens. True, about 25% would be lost from the top or bottom of the picture, but as Metro's Dore Schary sanely said. "All you lose is air, anyway." For a few actors' heads the public would probably not argue the point. The first of the "retreads" to be shown on wide screen, Paramount's Shane and Universal's Thunder Bay, have done...