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Word: reel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best two-reel short subject: Walt Disney's Water Birds (Disney's 18th Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Oscars | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous Yankee colonel (I think from Vermont) whom Cooper brought to grief in the final reel. Save your Yankee dollars boys, the Nawth will rise again...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Marching Through Los Angeles | 2/11/1953 | See Source »

...process that fascinated audiences is called Natural Vision, a new twist on the old stereoscope and on MGM's 1937 two-reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Lion in Your Lap! | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...Love That Chimp." Producer Katzman's most successful serial is his Superman, which grossed more than $1,000,000, and was so popular in South America that the whole 31-reel cliff-hanger-5 hours 10 minutes long-was run off as a single feature. Sam pre-tests the plots and chapter endings on his 15-year-old son Jerome and playmates. "If they guess how the guy gets out of the predicament each week, it goes out immediately and we rewrite until they can't guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jungle Sam | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...most filmed of Scott's 25 novels. Other screen versions of Ivanhoe: a three-reel Hollywood production made in 1913 with King Baggot in the title role, and a 1913 British six-reeler entitled Rebecca the Jewess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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