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