Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Following the lead of Warner Brothers, 20th Century-Fox and Paramount, M-G-M announced that it will take the big jump into TV next fall with a weekly half-hour show over ABC called The M-G-M Parade. Its aim: to sell "the studio's forthcoming pictures to be played exclusively in motion-picture theaters...
...violence, but far from inspiring juvenile crime, films often combatted it by portraying its ugly consequences, thus arousing public zeal for reform. MGM's Dore Schary argued that his Blackboard Jungle, condemned by Critic Mooring, did not "accelerate" delinquency but "insulated" against it. The family itself, testified Paramount's Y. Frank Freeman, is delinquency's chief hotbed, and "an old-fashioned hickory stick" is the remedy. Taken to task for the violence dished out in Warner's unreleased juvenile crime saga, Rebel Without Cause, Executive Producer Jack L. Warner sourly snapped: "The critics must be using...
...public school teacher occupies a leading position in the community, and should be held to a high degree of moral obligation. Yet the paramount consideration at this time, in particular, should probably be the necessity to preserve individual rights. "Because of the mood of our time and the totalitarian menace, we should emphasize opposition to that mood--the rights of the individual...
...Strategic Air Command (Paramount...
...Horizons (Paramount). The Lewis and Clark expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1804 is one of the most remarkable in the history of exploration. Its two leaders took a party of some several dozen men, a woman and a child through thousands of miles of virgin wilderness inhabited by hostile tribes. At the end of three years of hazardous journeying there had been only one death in the party-from a ruptured appendix-and but one scuffle with the Indians (two redmen were killed in an attempt at horse stealing...