Word: productive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry of any size--German, French, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Mexican, British, Polish--and a great many American re-issues which have some status as film classics or which happen to please the management or which fill gaps in a program which becomes increasingly difficult to schedule with the current "product shortage" yawning emptily before art theatres throughout the country...
...among the motion picture companies, and nitrate film are perhaps the biggest. Because it seats only about 350 people, the Brattle cannot afford to pay the prices asked by distributors of some of the major foreign films, which these days are almost as costly as the first-run Hollywood products. Most such distributors would rather hold the film for years in the hope that it will be bought by one of the big Boston art theatres, which can offer a hundred times the rental the Brattle can scrape up, rather than sell it immediately to the Brattle. The problem...
Like most movie exposes, The Great Man makes a point which is not particularly surprising: in the radio-tv business anything, even honesty, goes--as long as it sells the sponsor's product. But it tells its small story with economy and skill. When Herb Fuller, who dispenses sermons, homey philosophy, and slightly off-color stories on a daily program, kills himself in an auto wreck, a young radio reporter is tabbed as his replacement. The reporter's first assignment, on which the future of his career depends, is to prepare a memorial show about the deceased great...
Thus, emerging out of politics, came progress that was more secure because of politics. "There is no doubt that these are not perfect documents," said U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. during the U.N. maneuverings, "but they are the product of compromise. They contain the words which can lead away from hostilities and toward an era of peace...
They will also tell you that the CRIMSON can be a lot of fun. They will describe epic struggles with the journalists from Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, and others. And they will describe the everyday joys of working together on a group activity with a tangible product appearing daily the next morning...