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...last week's NBC-TV Macbeth was a triumph. The camera work was so carefully plotted that, on the screen, the play had a novel air of extreme fluidity. Oddly enough, because of the narrow range imposed by the color-TV control board, Director George Schaefer used only three cameras on the set and one on a platform, instead of the five cameras that handled the black-and-white telecast of Hamlet two years ago. However Schaefer achieved his remarkable mobility by keeping his camera moving into and out of the scene during each long sequence...
...Schaefer concedes that the smoothness of the operation resulted from months of the kind of planning that is impossible on ordinary shows. Long before Macbeth went into rehearsal, he was spending five to seven hours a day over the blueprints of the set, blocking out each scene with miniature cameras and calling the shots that would be used on the air. He was also helped by the physical properties of the set itself. Where the Hamlet set had been built in a circle with the cameras stationed in the center and radiating outward, Macbeth was all of a piece, like...
Except for the enforced shortage of cameras, color TV worked no production hardship. "We just went ahead as though color hadn't been invented," says Schaefer. One unfortunate result: after the murder of the King, the hands of Evans and Judith Anderson (Lady Macbeth) looked appropriately bloody on black-and-white; on color TV they seemed to be literally dripping with gore...
Cups & Minesweepers. Under Nevins' skilled hand, his yard turned out such ships (designed chiefly by Sparkman & Stephens) as John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, which has twice been first-boat-in in the Bermuda race; R.J. Schaefer's Edlu I, winner of the 1934 Bermuda; Henry Morgan's Djinn, winner of the Seawanhaka Cup in 1947; Stormy Weather, winner of the ocean race to Norway and the Florida Trophy; R. J. Reynolds' Blitzen, winner of the Miami-Nassau...
Paris Express (Raymond Stress; George Schaefer), a British movie version of French Novelist Georges Simenon's The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, is a Technicolored slice of European low life. It tells of a dull, respectable Dutch bookkeeper (Claude Rains) who catches his boss (Herbert Lom) running out with embezzled company money. In the scuffle, the employer is accidentally killed, and the bookkeeper, tempted by the financial windfall, runs off to Paris with the funds. There he takes up with a shady lady (Marta Toren) and has his one big fling before the police close...