Word: scopic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showing where the particles go and how they interact with atoms in the ether. When Inventor Glaser delivered his classic paper at a Washington physics convention. Physicist Luis Alvarez, associate director of the Radiation Lab, was not in the audience. He was at the White House delivering a strobo-scopic gadget he had invented to improve President Eisenhower's golf game. But Alvarez knew about the Glaser paper, and had plans for improvements. The best liquid to use, he thought, was not ether; it was pure liquid hydrogen, which contains no carbon or oxygen atoms to confuse researchers...
...Jacobs, 34, who handles the sound. Working together, the two present "esthetically gratifying audio-visual experiences probably related to basic instincts in the fear of loud noise and the fear of falling." Belson's equipment includes standard slide projectors, rotating prisms, a series of slotted globes, a strobo-scopic flicker machine that has the effect, at 15 flashes per second, of inducing the shakes in some viewers (Belson keeps his flicker to a safe eight flashes per second). Jacobs controls the sound from a console that is hooked into twelve three-story loudspeakers located about...
...establishes the brand of sultriness which is to drive men mad. Miss Dandridge seems a little relenting for this demoniac task but her equipage is more than adequate. Harry Bellafonte, as Joe--nee Don Jose--relies too much on eye-popping and nerve-straining, emotional displays which the Cinema-Scopic screen shoves into the realm of the ludicrous...