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...film projector shows pages of print on the screen. Each line of print is revealed jump by jump at increasing speeds. At the beginning of the course the speed was 190 words per minute. By the 19th day the speed had risen to 600 words per minute. The subjects of the films ranged from "Napoleon" and "Barzun on Hokum" to "The Ituri Pygmies...
...realities. He took up military engineering, and invented prototypes of the machine gun, the tank, the explosive shell, the submarine. Turning to municipal planning, he conceived a city with two-level highways. He designed the first power loom, the first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until the 19th century, wrestled with ideas...
...Zurich, Swiss scientists using the CBS color system (TIME, Nov. 28, 1949) showed off a new television projector on a 9 ft. by 12 ft. theater screen. Based on the Eidophor method first developed for black & white projection, the new projector gets most of its light from an arc lamp rather than from the conventional cathode-ray tube. Claimed Swiss Institute Director Ernest Bauman: "It is now better than Technicolor movies...
...Swiss poster art. Herbert Leupin happily dabbles in a peasant palette of rich, bright colors, applies them with gaiety and wit; his poster for Eptinger mineral water is as bubbly as the drink itself. Prizewinner Hans Erni specializes in such unexpected stunts as turning the reels of a film projector into owlish eyes. Master of a flowing, Picassoesque line, sober-sided Erni works by a simple dictum: "It's the idea that matters...
Such moviemakers as Russia's Sergei Eisenstein-who got in trouble by making Czar Ivan the Terrible look too terrible-could have told Sun that the party line is not easily threaded through a movie projector. Just as Sun's acclaim was reaching its peak, Peking's People's Daily thundered that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression...