Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forgetting all about Thurber and the "New Yorker", and considering "Walter Mitty" as just another motion picture, we can measure it by its own individual merits--and we can find it wanting. Perhaps this feeling comes because Danny Kaye cannot seem to exude any of the real Mitty atmosphere; perhaps Kaye's species of facial-contortions-and-mouth-noises humor has begun to be rather tedious; perhaps slapstick is still, as always, a poor substitute for wit. Or perhaps the five dream-episodes, (three from the original story), funny as they may be, just don't completely redeem a routine...
...other fundamental element in today's rapid pace, according to Harlow, is the man in motion. Only in the past two years has the use of the back in motion reached its ultimate refinement in the T formation. First crudely evolved from the Chicago Bear approximation of the T, the motion-left-and-right was quickly-adapted by Charlie Caldwell of Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines...
...About Town (RKO Radio; Pathe) is the first movie that René Clair has made in France since 1934. The Brussels World Film Festival recently chose it-under its original title, Le Silence Est d'Or-as the finest motion picture made anywhere last year...
Clair has phrased his essay as a gentle caricature of a motion picture-more particularly, of the French motion picture as it was bequeathed to him by the pre-'20s pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets...
...Motion pictures don't appeal to the giant former flank man, at least not as a way to judge the mistakes of his tutees. "'Pictures don't lie' doesn't apply to football games," say Jacunski. "The camera distorts the play and sometimes you think a man could have made a tackle when he actually was yards away from the ball-carrier...