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Word: reel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Loves Mary (Warner), As a play, this farce about a returning veteran's muddled love life displayed a juggler's talent for keeping shiny bubbles in the air for three acts. Less expert movie treatment punctures them in the first reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Once upon a time people would step and look when 30 men began slicing each other with double-edged words. That was over 100 years age. But foggy morning duels went out with the Virginia Reel, and Hollywood has corned up the fine art of fencing; and nowadays few people pay much attention to Rene Peroy and his varsity swordsmen...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

Unfaithfully Yours (20th Century-Fox) was written, produced and directed by Preston Sturges, whose films have often been noted for novelty and freshness (Hail the Conquering Hero) as well as for questionable taste (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). This one is a brilliant idea for a two-reel comedy dragged out for nearly five reels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Betty Grable, looking sober as John Foster Dulles throughout, inherits the dancing by default. She's got a walk that would keep any normal male supremely happy for two reels. But it takes more than a wiggle to pull you through that long third reel...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

While one man grinds away with one camera, the other cameraman loads a 100-foot reel into the other camera...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Movies Mold Football Strategy; Gelotte is Crimson's Cameraman | 11/20/1948 | See Source »

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