Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristic roar of blastoff, a Navy Polaris popped out of a large tube, impelled by compressed air in a device the Navy has installed at Canaveral to simulate the pitch and roll of a ship. Dubbed "the world's largest cocktail shaker," the $3,000,000 ship-motion simulator was held steady for this test, which concentrated on the compressed-air takeoff. It worked perfectly. The Polaris jumped silently to a point 60 ft. overhead where its first-stage engine came to life, and the missile left a long white trail behind as it took...
...Crackling. Born 58 years ago in New Zealand, Lye has adventured all over the world, worked at everything from sheepshearing and ship trimming to sitting still on a South Sea island. Sitting still came hardest to Lye, who sees and best understands the world and himself in terms of motion. On nights off, he likes to dance like an egg beater to Dixieland jazz. His conversation crackles like Chinese fireworks. Some 25 years ago Lye hit on the then revolutionary idea of painting abstractions directly on motion-picture films-a process that has since become commonplace in art film circles...
...picks up speed, the foil appears to dissolve into a flashing egg-shape. Another Tangible is a tower of aluminum rings suspended at artful intervals on almost invisible wires. Vibration makes the rings spin and lift like a quicksilver ballet. Plinth (see cut) carries sound as well as motion: at a certain point in the vibration cycle, the strip arcs out to strike a metal ball, which makes it resound like a gong...
...long intervals, and with suitable musical accompaniment. The result would certainly startle the unwary passerby, and the fact that his Tangibles are wholly abstract may count against them in the eyes of most park commissioners. But Lye remains firmly wedded to abstraction. "These are for grace and power of motion," he explains, "not for imagery. They are not supposed to be like anything...
George Gershwin's classic opera, Porgy and Bess, has finally come to Boston (it opens today at the Astor), heralding, it claims, "a new era in motion pictures." This may be something of an overstatement; but let it be said here and now that Porgy is a mammoth, melliflous...