Word: motion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon was recalled in remarkable detail last week when NASA released the first color photographs from the Apollo mission. The still shots in particular displayed the harsh beauty of the barren landscape around Tranquillity Base as strong unfiltered sunlight etched myriad craters in deep shadow. The 16-mm. motion-picture films of Eagle's touchdown on the lunar surface brought back that dangerous moment with tense immediacy. The movies were so clear and sharp that they allowed scientists to pinpoint the landing area precisely. And with the exact coordinates to guide them, astronomers at California's Lick Observatory...
Visually the documentary parts have a seeming aimlessness that borders on irresponsibility. It includes one marvelous establishing shot of the Brazilian people: a tightly packed ferry nudges into dock, the retaining rope falls, and Brazilian men and women come running towards the camera in slow motion. Much of the rest of the footage comes on as a Coca-Cola travelogue, complete with the familiar dialectic of Old and New: large cathedrals, ornate Spanish architecture, monuments and statuary versus shots of the people gaily swinging through the busy streets of Brazil's modern cities, qua qua. And there to help them...
...judicial sanction, along Washington's Embassy Row. Anyone who phoned an embassy and was later accused of a crime, they argued, would now be entitled to force the Government to reveal such eavesdrops-even though they might involve delicate international affairs. In turning down the Government's motion for a new hearing, Justice Potter Stewart noted that the Court had ordered the release of records only when the eavesdropping violated the Fourth Amendment-and that it had not ruled on the legality of bugging for national-security reasons. To the Justice Department, at least, Stewart's statement...
Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America and author of the movies' new rating system, may be astonished to learn that he is the father of Easy Rider (rated R). In a speech before the M.P.A.A. in 1967, Valenti said he was weary, weary, weary of the excesses in drug and motorcycle films. He wished for theaters full of Doctor Dolittles. Waiting in the wings, the next speaker made a perverse resolution: to make a good movie about drugs and motorcycles...
...consequence, will be any more profitable. But this spring, at the Cannes Film Festival, first prize for a new director went to Dennis Hopper for his work on Easy Rider. If such a rakehell film can get international approbation, there are only two courses open to the Motion Picture Association: prohibition of drug-and-motorcycle movies-or of speeches by Jack Valenti...