Word: screen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Uday Shankar was back in the U.S. Americans would see him dance again, but this time only on the screen. Shankar had spent three years and a fortune in rupees, making a two-hour movie about India, told largely in dance; and he is planning a cross country U.S. tour to show it. Audiences would find Kalpana's story as jumbled as a dream-full of plots and subplots, visions and fantasies, and plays within plays. At times, the story borders on absurdity. But as a picture of Indian dancing, Kalpana would tell them nearly everything...
...black-on-white tells other tales as well. Hundreds of wrong rulings by referees in past Crimson games have shown up distressingly well on the screen. "Lots of referees would like to take the game over after seeing the movies," Gelotte comments...
Blackboards & Boredom. For its largest audience (an estimated 11 million around the country), TV tried earnestly to make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...
...seconds later George Emmons, a borrowed Varsity end, seized an intended Brown screen pass and scooted 40 yards before being halted on the ten. Three plays worked the ball to the two and on fourth down wingback Rick Hudner scored on a shallow reverse...
...Gilbert libretti were written exclusively for the stage, and no amount of editing could possibly adapt them successfully to the screen. J. Arthur Rank's attempt is almost bizzare. Its cast is a mixture of stage and screen actors, each group obliged to assume the function of the other, and neither succeeding very well...