Word: moviemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What sparked it all was a growing oilfield (3,000 bbl. a day from twelve wells) on the 20th Century-Fox movie lot adjoining Beverly Hills. Trying to recoup from TV competition, the moviemen leased to oilmen who got permission to drill in 1953. Fox argued that the 280-acre lot was already zoned for manufacturing, and what was the difference between an oil derrick erected for a movie or one to drill? Furthermore, modern drilling avoids the noise and mess that blighted oil-happy Los Angeles in the '20s and brought a ban on drilling...
CINEMA.: "The U.S. movie industry has seen to it that most adolescents look like Marlon Brando, and if possible James Dean. In Paris there are 10,000 Marlon Brandos, 10,000 James Deans, and ten Yul Brynners." But by and large, French moviemen admire Hollywood. Says Alexandre Astruc, one of France's brightest young directors: "American movies are for me the very first in the world. The reason? Because in them one never feels what really kills a movie-the contempt of those who make them for the public and for their art." Jean Cocteau enters a dissent: "Hollywood...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American-TIME, Feb .25]. THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
...American moviemen take about the same precautions in Washington...
...Disillusioned. Next day, when the moviemen returned from Saigon to shoot some final scenes inside the Cao Dai cathedral, they discovered that the Vice Pope and his staff had departed for points unknown. Those Cao Daists who remained refused to have anything further to do with moviemaking...