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Word: quos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a decade of dickering for the rights, Metro was filming Quo Vadis? (Where Are You Going?), Henry Sienkiewicz' flamboyant old (1895) novel of Nero's Rome. Filmed three times before on a much smaller scale (once by the French and twice by the Italians), Quo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...progress. Hunting and haggling through Italy since 1948, Henigson had collected enough costumes to outfit a small army, enough animals to stock a zoo. He had bought 12,480 yards of specially dyed material to be made into togas, had cornered 10,000 pieces of gold-plated jewelry for Quo Vadis' 5,000 extras. From Roman shoemakers, he had ordered 6,250 pairs of handmade sandals, and from the women of the Italian Alps, several hundred silky-haired wigs. For the circus scenes in Quo Vadis, there would be six fighting bulls, a stable of horses to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...Henigson's worst headaches was taking over Rome's giant (148 acres) film city, Cinedtta, for the actual shooting of Quo Vadis. A German army barracks during the war, Cinedtta had been stripped of all electrical equipment, and its sound stages had been smashed and gutted. A hurry call for Metro's own big generator went out to Hollywood and the Italian government lent two more from the torpedoed battleship Vittorio Veneto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...cameras began panning through the early scenes last week, $3,000,000 had already been spent on Quo Vadis and 50,000 people had got in on the handout. Some estimated that the cost would hit $9,000,000 before the film is ready for release late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...farmers did themselves proud: less than 1% of the world's population, they produced food for nearly half of the world. But there was a bill attached. As the farmer's production went up, so did his profits-and his prices. As the quid pro quo for his vote for vitally needed wartime price controls, the Farm Bloc Congressmen got even higher parity prices and a law decreeing that they would be extended without letup for two years after hostilities ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Plague of Plenty | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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