Word: reel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Occasionally the calloused thumb of an exchange editor is arrested in its perambulations through the weekly stacks of newsprint by an item to make the hand pause, the eye light, and the mind reel. As a public service we reprint parts of the following lead editorial from The Technique, semi-weekly spokesman of Georgia Tech. and self-designated as "The South's Livellest College Newspaper...
...last reel or two, The Law and the Lady falters under the weight of romantic complications that Hollywood has piled on the Lonsdale original. Until then, however, it breezes along pleasantly. The lines are bright, the style brittle. Actor Wilding and Actress Garson (unaccountably wearing a black wig) make a suave and charming pair of scoundrels...
...priceless gift for which James Thurber was honored in Williamstown on Commencement Day, 1951, may soon be made available to half the world. United Productions of America, which last year made the Oscar-winning cartoon comedy short, Gerald McBoing-Boing, has announced a forthcoming eight-reel, 80-minute color film-partly animated, partly live-that will be derived solely from Thurber's writings and drawings. U.P.A. crosses its heart & hopes to die that the picture, tentatively titled Men, Women and Dogs, will be not only all Thurber but true Thurber. Shooting will start this year; release is scheduled...
...Women and Dogs will open with Thurber himself giving an illustrated lecture on a theme that brought him fame both as a writer and an artist-the Domination of the American Male by the American Female. The fact that Thurber will talk throughout the entire first reel should leave him with a decided histrionic edge over Somerset Maugham, who merely introduced Quartet and Trio, the films made from his own stories...
...Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization of The Whippoorwill, one of Thurber's narrative ventures into neurasthenic horror; and 5) a three-reel version of his fantasy, The White Deer...