Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Life (MGM) is what the wise guys are calling "a bow-wow wow" of a motion picture. Based on The Bar Sinister, a famous dog story by Richard Harding Davis, it is in fact as nice to have around as any bright young pup, and though it officially belongs to children, their parents will undoubtedly be giving it a run when the young ones are in bed. The hero of this waggish tale is a pit bull, called Wildfire in the film as in the life, who looks like a mournfully overgrown white mouse, and will certainly win all hearts...
...Reader Gutterman's own biographical sketch in the Motion Picture Almanac notes: "Paramount publicity writer 1941-42. June 1942 appointed publicity director Warner Brothers Radio Division...
...outboard motor mounted above pontoons which enable the pilot to set his craft down on land or water. The Aerocycle can carry 300 Ibs., has a maximum speed of 65 m.p.h. and a 150-mile range. The infantryman standing on its small platform controls vertical motion and speed with motorcycle-type handlebars, guides the direction of flight by leaning in the direction he wants to go. The Army is also negotiating with Hiller Helicopters, Inc. for some Flying Carpets (TIME, April 18), which use a ducted air fan rather than helicopter blades for propulsion...
...season for movie awards blossomed like a turn-of-the-year perennial when the New York Film Critics agreed with the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures in naming Marty the best movie of the year. Other choices by the critics: best actor, Ernest Borgnine in Marty; best actress, Anna Magnani in The Rose Tattoo; best director, David Lean for Summertime; best foreign-language film, a tie between Italy's Umberto D. and France's Diabolique...
...zero can do work, e.g., produce mechanical energy, without affecting the temperature of the material that it is ' using as an energy source. Professor Ramsey proposes that one of the thermodynamics laws (among the most sacred in physics) be changed to preclude the possibility of a -K. perpetual-motion machine...