Word: microfilm
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...office of the New York Herald Tribune's European edition) alternate between playing footie with one another and playing hide & seek with a scurvy group of Iron Curtain spies. Reporter Andrews, assigned to the Budapest beat, is jailed, drugged and tortured by Hungarian heavies. An elusive bit of microfilm evidence turns up just in time for a happy ending...
...himself opens his mouth is when he breaks down and sobs during the strain of the chase. But though the picture is wordless, it is not actually silent. It has a rich, sometimes overemphatic musical score. And it has all sorts of literal sound effects: the click of a microfilm camera, the rustle of papers, the jangle of telephones, the blare of radios, opening & closing doors. Unfortunately, Director Russell Rouse (who also co-authored the screenplay with Producer Clarence Greene) has not used his sound track, or his camera, in a particularly imaginative way. The Thief is an interesting stunt...
...Over 120 microfilm transcripts of rare and ancient historical documents are now lying in Widener's stacks. The microfilm came here under a new plan jointly sponsored by the Government of Ireland, the Eire Society of Boston, and the University...
...Mongol, he went on, had hidden in the trunk compartment of his car, stripped the countess to find some secret papers she was carrying, and strangled her, all before Meurant could interfere. "Brassières and panties," Meurant told an Amiens court informatively, "are excellent for hiding microfilm." After searching high & low for the Mongol, French justice finally condemned Léon Meurant to death...
After a long correspondence, during which Frugoni melted the library with a gift of books, he got microfilm prints of the two works...