Word: screened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gorcey, side-of-the-mouth "Dead End Kid" of stage & screen, had gat trouble with his estranged wife Evalene. One dark night at home in suburban Los Angeles, he heard people coming in without asking, so he grabbed his rod quick and blazed away. It was just Evalene and a couple of detectives having a little peek. Nobody got hit, but Leo got arrested on a gun charge and faced trial this week...
...worked out a system of eight mirrors to reflect all sides of the customer. By focusing the camera on a panel of four mirrors, he was able to get four reflected views on one film: front, rear, side and one from directly overhead. The film is projected on a screen, half lifesize. Tailors read the measurements from the calibrated screen. The measurements are then fed into another Booth invention: the Photo-Metric calculator...
...color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot it over again in Rouxcolor. When he releases the color film next September, he expects to make "screen history...
...four-in-one lens "decomposes" light, making four different images on the film. (A gadget prevents distortion of the images in relation to each other.) When projected through a similar lens, the four-color images are "recomposed" into one color picture. The color of the projected image on the screen is given, not by the film as in other processes, but by the four-in-one lens through which the black-&-white film is projected...
...train comes roaring round the bend, a figure (a bird? a plane?) hurtles through the air. He races the locomotive to the broken rail. Suddenly the screen goes black. Will Superman (who looks slightly flabby in the flesh) reach the broken-rail in time to prevent the wreck? Will he weld the rail with the glare of his X-ray eyes? Or will he straight-arm the train to a stop? Find out next Saturday in the next thrilling chapter of Superman...