Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used to stop cyclists and staff cars or to make them swerve and crash: a couple of baby carriages covered with sacking, a pair of old auto headlamps, operated on batteries, set in the middle of the road. "To attract the closest attention of enemy car drivers or guards, prop up a dead Nazi where they will...
Like many another successful director (Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, William Wyler, etc.), Stevens learned his cinema technique on the roughhouse, two-reel comedy lots, where everyone from prop boy to producer had a hand in the story and no one knew how it was going to end. That is known as "shooting off the cuff," and Stevens does just that today with most of his pictures...
...Morton does not like ugly corrective shoes, prefers to prop up weak feet with insoles that are thickened at the spots that need help. But the insole, says Dr. Morton, must be as carefully made as a pair of glasses. He is sure that his black box, which will be manufactured commercially soon, will be as important to orthopedists as the cardiograph is to heart specialists...
...window. The captain ran around the rear of the building to supervise these operations. A stray bullet broke his leg. As his colleagues carried him to safety, he ordered them to take his two remaining grenades and blow up the power plant. Then the captain ordered the sergeant to prop him against a tree and leave because the Commandos had a rendezvous with the evacuating forces. The sergeant gave the captain a shot of morphine, then with the others started for the sea, leaving Keyes's body and the wounded captain behind...
...Republic, home of the Western picture, began rewriting Westerns in production to eliminate all possible-gunfire. Reason: civilian authorities wanted the studio's Wild West arsenal. Future Westerns will be made with prop armament...