Word: morgan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule, pretty dreary stuff, with an off-screen commentator reading a script copied out of the World Almanac. Only seldom does a travel short even try to show the "natives" as people rather than as models for picturesque costumes. But Songs of the Auvergne, made by Miles Morgan '50, not only tries but succeeds impressively...
Songs of the Auvergne does not have any commentator at all. Instead, it has the voice of soprano Phyllis Curtin, singing some beautiful and sophisticated folk songs to the accompaniment of members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The versatile Mr. Morgan, who is both director and photographer, also conducts these musicians...
...film is as much a pleasure to see as it is to hear. Hardly a single routine shot of rolling countrysides deaden the 20 minutes running time. Morgan and his associate Richard Harris have concentrated on details: a few chickens shaking the water of a rainstorm form their feathers, the closeup of a ringing church bell, a frog in a pond. And then there are the people of Auvergne themselves, their faces caught haggling over the price of a bill at the fair and their hands weighing out fish in a market-place. Although Songs of the Auvergne is photographed...
...GREAT MAN (319 pp.)-Al Morgan-Dutton...
...boys along Radio Row and Advertising Alley always enjoy biting the hand that feeds them their gimlets and girls. Latest inmate of an Executive Suite to write an exposé of The Hucksters (TV division) is Al Morgan, a senior editor of NBC's Home show. His book is a shoddy production with characters that are walking clichés (lying down, in the case of the females). Its language sounds like Mickey Spillane trying to sound like Hemingway ("I belched. Loud and clear"). Nevertheless, the book has a minor and terrible fascination for what it tells about...