Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pier 38, opposite the tough warehouse district which is known to oldsters as "South of the Slot."? Freight cars on the Belt Line Railroad which runs the full length of the broad brick and cobblestoned Embarcadero and is owned and operated by the State were spotted to screen the pier while police cars lined up to keep an open runway. Out of Pier 38 thundered five trucks bearing packaged birdseed, coffee, automobile tires. Before sundown 28 truckloads had been moved safely to a nearby warehouse. Strikers, 3,000 strong, failed to stop the movement. Police fought them off with...
...Roman Catholic Church, through its Legion of Decency, began to get results last week from its boycott to drive obscenity from the screen...
When the device is in operation the patient stands so that the x-rays throw shadows of his bones and viscera upon a fluoroscopic screen. A television scanning disk looks over the grey shadows piece meal, lets them illuminate three photo electric cells. One cell responds only to heavy shadows, another to light shadows, the third to medium greys. In turn one cell activates a red neon tube, another a yellow helium tube, the third a blue mercury tube. Lenses combine those col ors and a second scanning disk synchronized with the first paints a colored x-ray image...
...more certain than ever before of recognizing a cancer or benign tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which the customer stands while she sees her figure...
...long novel of a cripple in unworthy love in 1915. Since then the book has sold some 300,000 copies and firmly established itself as a modern masterpiece. For years Hollywood has eyed it as a mighty challenge to the cinema's capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress...