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...third year of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science named ?All Quiet on the Western Front? the best picture of 1930. In its third year, the New York Film Critics? Circle convened in Rockefeller Center?s Rainbow Room to cite Greta Garbo as 1937?s best actress, in ?Camille.? The third year of the Tony Awards, 1949, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan won for ?The Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place...
Clad in a blue pullover, he stands a bit nervously in the aisle until Ma bellows, “Center stage!” Presser gives a rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow...
Benton, who earned his master’s and Ph.D. from Harvard and later taught at the University, invented the rainbow hologram, which is now widely used to prevent counterfeiting because of how simple it is to discern a fake hologram. In 1983, MasterCard International became the first company to use these holograms on their cards; today, they are used by every major credit card company...
What makes Benton’s rainbow holograms so special is that they are clearly visible to the naked eye. Particular lighting or lasers were needed to view previous holograms. Benton made holograms visible by using common white light...
During this time, he was working for the Polaroid Corporation, and he later went on to become the company’s senior scientist. It was also at Polaroid where Benton invented the rainbow hologram...