Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the movie colony in those days. I heard that the studio was paying $5 a day for extras, so I applied." She soon learned that student extras were in great demand at other studios and particularly for the rash of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach two-reel comedies that were being turned out. Result: Margaret set up her own personnel bureau and began recruiting fellow students for the sand-lot epics and near-epics...
...director, he is forced to work at a pace and in a catch-as-catch-can manner reminiscent of the early days of silent pictures. Where major studios do well to dub sound on one 1,000-ft. reel of film in one day, Dragnet must finish three reels in a half-day. But Webb refuses to surrender his almost fantastic insistence on accuracy of detail in backgrounds, dialogue and mannerisms...
...straight. If he had succeeded, The Great Diamond Robbery might have been an even more amusing picture than Half a Hero (TIME, Nov. 9). Instead, the stiff upper lip of a surprisingly mature wit goes into a maudlin flap of baby talk before the end of the first reel. Nevertheless, the plot is so neatly stacked, and the rest of the players so well handled by Director Robert Z. Leonard, that the moviegoer gets a pretty good deal...
There have been errors, for example, both in judgment and accuracy. Every Crimed knows the worst ones by heart and can reel them off as a hopeful chant against future mistakes. But for every misquote or proofing back, back are countless bright sports: the extra editions when a president resigns and when his successor is chosen; the announcement that, for the fifth straight year, the paper has won the Dana Reed prize for undergraduate writing; or perhaps, just the daily satisfaction is watching a paper materialize--sometimes as a weak paper, sometimes a strong one, but always a newspaper...
Throughout the film's many crises, the cast carries on with feverish emotion, as though the only way to express great feeling is with a shout or a groan. The octopus alone manages to preserve his dignity, and he gets stabbed in the last reel. But despite the success of Wagner's sponge-fishing expedition, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is at best a meagre catch for the audience...