Word: screened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Screen Writers Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson, who had been found guilty of contempt by District of Columbia juries, were each sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $1,000. The other eight of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten"-who had also refused to answer when asked whether or not they were Communists-waived jury trials. They agreed to rest their fate on the outcome of appeals to higher courts by Trumbo and Lawson...
Outside of his daily rides to work, Mac-Arthur rarely appears in public. The Japanese have applied to him a name by which they used to call the Emperor: "The man behind the bamboo screen." It nicely expresses a Japanese feeling that the man of power should be remote and unapproachable...
...Kenmore has a double-bill this week a good murder mystery and a new actress named Suzy Delair. Of course, Suzy is also highly involved in the murder mystery, but Suzy's screen personality will demand some attention...
...television "camera," a lens focuses a picture of the scene on a light-sensitive coating inside the pickup tube's front end. Electrons fly off. They are focused on a thin glass plate, each knocking off several more electrons, which are gathered up by a charged screen and drawn out of the tube...
...receiving tube or "kinescope" is a screen of material that glows brightly when electrons are hurled at it As the beam sweeps across the screen, it duplicates in light the picture that the television camera is seeing...