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Creatures, spaceships and other objects are inserted into the action of the film by means of the blue-screen process. The figure is photographed against a blue background and then combined in an optical printer with the scene into which it will be placed. This procedure must be repeated each time a new element is added to the scene. The pastry creatures that came to life in Young Sherlock Holmes, for example, were hand-manipulated rod puppets, each shot individually and added one by one in as many as twelve layers. For a brief shot of a space battle...
...learned to love machinery from her father Joseph, a printer and sometime inventor. A practical, progressive thinker, he dismissed his Jewish background; his wife Minnie Bourke was an equally forward-looking daughter of British immigrants. They taught Margaret the redemptive power of work and accomplishment and gave her the motto "You can." Joseph died during her freshman year in college, leaving her grief and a mixed legacy. She spent the rest of her life trying to match his vision of her possibilities--and the world's--in photographs...
...teaching fellows had to turn off the printer to stop the message from coming out. Some freshmen lost the programs they had written and sent to the printer to pass the test and had to retype them, said participant Jay Ramaswamy, who will be on probation until next spring...
Thanks to a printer's goof, several hundred students who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test last Saturday will have to go through the three-hour ordeal all over again...
...Both the printer and ETS have quality control standards," said a spokesman for Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J., which administers the SAT. "Somehow the error got through both. We're going to have to reevaluate the way we quality-check the tests. This never happened before--but once is all it takes," the spokesman said...