Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizens of Haverhill, Mass. had shrugged off the motion picture as a flickering freak. Then an enterprising young (22) junkman named Louis Burt Mayer came to town and laid out $600 as a down payment on a onetime burlesque house. Mayer hid the shoddy past of his theater with a coat of white paint, installed an organ, and dug up a religious film called From the Manger to the Cross. His opening was a socko success. The lines of ticket buyers taught L. B. Mayer a lesson he never forgot: Americans want simple, clean entertainment...
...Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...
...entered the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in September, had a series of blood transfusions. There last week, at 72, Louis B. Mayer died. Close by his bedside was his television screen, the only other force that had changed Hollywood as much as he himself had. Headlined the Hollywood Reporter: MR. MOTION PICTURE IS GONE...
...motion was made by Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, on behalf of the Committee on Applied Mathematics and Statistics. The committee, of which Dean Brooks is chairman, has worked out the degree programs...
...fundamental precept seems unassailable. As he says at length and somewhat abstrusely, the novel, especially the modern novel, characteristically deals with time and the complexities of inner motivation; the film, on the other hand, basically unequipped to render these effectively, finds its forte in rendering motion and action. Both its external quality and the unfortunate compression required by a maximum viewing time limit the film. A novel, for example, can take forty hours to be read, and can indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back...