Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film doomed soon to dry and crumble into powder? Not if loving care can prevent it. In an aluminum can sealed in an air-conditioned, constant temperature vault at MGM's Culver City studios lies one of the most valuable objects of its weight in existence: the master negative of G.W.T.W. Beside it rests the picture's master print, "the platinum yardstick" by which the colors of all new prints are measured. As long as these masters are in reasonably good shape, G.W.T.W. is safe. Prints can be "enhanced," if worst comes to worst, and even...
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...MGM killed the movie version with what must have been its first decision--to take it out of the '30's and move it into an indefinite period which closely resembles now. The trouble with this move, which saves the studio the trouble of recreating the clothes, speech, and home furnishing style of the '30's, and enables Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey to cruise around in fancy sports cars, is that Gloria Wandrous has no relation with the Missile Age. She and her generation died long ago. Perhaps it is just that the amateur prostitute has disappeared...
Butterfield 8 (MGM) as a novel by John O'Hara was a crude but affecting tart's tragedy. As a film, it has been turned into a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller...
Storyboards & Puns. When Hanna and Barbera first thought of quickie cartoons for TV, they tried to give the idea to MGM. The studio was not interested. And during one of Hollywood's periodic panic waves it decided to stop all new production on Tom and Jerry. Hanna and Barbera were ordered to lay off their staff, and they soon voluntarily followed their co-workers out of the studio, rounded them up again to launch their own business; 70% of their present employees were with them at MGM...