Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dozen nations seized on May's incandescent hunch. In 1884 a German, Paul Nipkow, invented a whirling metal disc, which eventually picked up vague picture outlines and was the basis for mechanical television. Italy's Marconi, with his wireless, and America's Edison, with his motion picture, added ears and movement to the dim silhouettes that were forming...
...Wrath is, to be sure, the kind of classical work in which scrupulous care is taken never to exploit a sensation or an emotion. Thus, beautiful as it is, it leaves one relatively cold. Dreyer seems to be more interested in creating motion portraits than drama, but he makes grave and noble drama of his portraits...
Four Harvard professors have joined a list of over 300 civic, educational, religious, and labor leader protesting the showing of the motion picture "The Iron Curtain," as increasing "the atmosphere of hysteria leading...
...Eric Johnston, in a speech earlier last week, proclaimed the tremendous force of the motion picture in forming public opinion...
Daily life, says Professor Giedion, has always been a series of movements set in space. The ancient Greek falsely saw the world as the "immovable center of the cosmos," and his classical temples were expressive of eternal equilibrium. Medieval man saw the world as something set in motion by the hand of God; he found peace in rooms whose lack of furniture ("movables") gave spacious tranquillity to his austere thoughts. His dinner table was set up on a trestle, promptly removed when he had eaten. Since that time, man has come to abhor the vacuum of space: he still talks...