Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the Chicago police were officially whitewashed by a special investigating committee of six unemployed American Legionnaires for shooting and clubbing ten men to death outside a Republic Steel plant one Sunday last May, the city's officials were left holding an exceedingly hot potato. Arrested during the massacre were 63 men & women, many of them badly wounded. They were originally held on charges of conspiracy. The State finally solved its problem by reducing the charges to unlawful assembly. Last week 57 defendants, some still battered, pleaded guilty. Six others, accused of being leaders, were fined $10 each...
...animation department are the strangest sights in the Disney plant. Animators leer and grimace into mirrors adjusted over their drawing boards, cocking one eye questioningly, darkly knitting brows, leaping up and down, squawking in experimental frenzy, and then calmly jotting down the effects with a few swift lines. There used to be a "zoo" at the Disney studios, and animators would study the antics of the animals in preparing their scenes. But for some years it has been recognized that the best cartoon effects are not to be got from animals acting like animals, but from animals acting like people...
...relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks to be photographed. After that it is taken to the Technicolor plant for processing, and made ready for final re lease...
...wife and his brother and his brother's wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they...
...must be not only smart but versatile. Granted that they should be well-grounded in medicine, surgery and autopsy technique, they must also know special tests for blood and other stains, be familiar with firearms and the effects on human tissues of bullets and powder; with botany (to identify plant dusts on clothing, vegetable fibres and plant seeds in stomachs); with entomology (because insect infestation helps determine the time of death in bodies long dead...