Word: reel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appearing in Walt Disney's short, "The New Spirit," Donald will be preceded on the program by Dr. John T. Dunlop, Faculty instructor in Economics, and Francis B. Sayre, Jr., assistant rector of Christ Church. In addition, a news reel of the raid on Pearl Harbor and a motion picture on "America's Call to Arms" will be shown...
Designed to start the project off well, tomorrow's mass meeting will feature speeches by the Reverend Mr. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Christ Church and John T. Dunlop, faculty instructor in Economics. A motion picture, "America's Call to Arms", and a news reel of Pearl Harbor will be shown, while Donald Duck will make his plea for generosity through Walt Disney's latest cartoon "The New Spirit...
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...
...Radio waves can be used to dry artificial silk as it is spun out of cellulose and reeled into hollow spools. Dried formerly with heat, the outer fibers would dry first and contract upon the inner ones, causing nonuniform drying and shrinkage. But high-frequency radio waves emanating from an antenna in the center of the reel dry the fibers uniformly, avoid shrinkage...
Obviously, this kind of unfairness cannot go on forever. Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'erperch these walls." But he doesn't perch the way his father...