Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl, now lost, matters more than success and he finds her after a long search in a storm off Cape Cod. But although the artist senses he unreality, constantly commenting on it, the porducer was apparently afraid the point was fuzzy and employed all kinds of trick photography and mood music to accentuate the "message" of the picture...
Just to make sure of his point, Selznick decided to close his opus on a more tangible note than timelessness and ends with a hurricane scene that completely breaks the mood of the picture, literally winding it up on the rocks. An additional battery of loudspeakers is spotted around the theater; during the storm scene, they are filled with sounds of wind and surf. The trade calls this device Multi-Sound and it is when the wind is screaming the loudest, and everyone is wondering what has become of the fresh air, that Jenny appears for the last time...
...having just resigned as town treasurer of Andover, Vt. (pop. 213), sat down last week to write a difficult letter to the nearby Rutland Daily Herald. "This letter is not to be construed as an effort to disperse blame," he began, "nor am I trying to be dramatic. The mood is that of self-condemnation, coupled with a profound disappointment in myself as a person and citizen...
Harvey was in no hurry to hawk his song; in 20 years he had written "boxes full of songs." He knew the music business inside & out. In his teens he had played mood music on an organ in an Atlantic City movie house: "I followed the hero and the villain and really got a workout...
...Phyllis Calvert). His son (Philip Friend), missing in action for several years, turns up wounded, bitter and a virtual stranger to the father. Son turns for understanding-and eventually for love-to father's fiancee. Before father can marry the girl, everyone gets into such a self-sacrificial mood that son's postwar maladjustment dissipates itself in noble dialogue...