Word: reelingly
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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...
While one man grinds away with one camera, the other cameraman loads a 100-foot reel into the other camera...
Then Gelotte darkened the developer's darkroom door for several hours, and when the last reel had been sweated out, he ran the original film--the one and only--to a waiting Valpey...
...Still a risky venture because of high labor costs, according to one film producer who has turned out 26 two-reel shorts costing $10,000 apiece, which he cannot peddle...
...photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force. There is not a single cut in the film; it was shot on one set, in solid ten-minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The action is continuous for 80 minutes' playing time. The flow of time is elegantly caught (in Technicolor) in the changing light on the Manhattan skyline, as seen through a huge window. This way of shooting necessitated split-second alertness in movement and timing. The professional movie camera is an enormous machine, but Hitchcock kept...