Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past, carrying members of youth organizations, official and semiofficial. Sweating in khaki sun-helmets and heavy khaki coats, they went into action shouting at traffic, patrolling the street to see that...
...salons of Paris couturiers were heavy with a nostalgia Edwardian or earlier. Sumptuously they ushered in winter modes inspired by the fun which a few ultrasmart Parisiennes have lately had dressing up like the opulent hoyden Miss West created on the stage as Diamond Lil, recreated on the screen as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (TIME...
...suspects, that on the screen as well as on the stage, that polished and adroit acting makes Mr. Sherwood's play seem somewhat better than it really is. Actually, it is merely the familiar French bedroom farce with a dash of high comedy flavoring--but how far removed from true high comedy like "The Second Man"--and lines that are clever and nothing more. And it is this lack of any genuine dramatic writing that procures for plays like "Reunion in Vienna" the extravagant critical kudos that is received. All in all, however, it provides a most diverting evening--with...
This process in the particles on the mica screen in turn modulates a high frequency current which passes over the mica mosaic. That current can be connected to a radio system...
...receiver of this radio system Dr. Zworykin calls a kinescope. It looks like the iconoscope. In the tube's neck is an oscillating cathode tube which weaves a pulsating beam of electrons over a fluorescent screen. Under the electron impacts the screen glows and thus shows the original iconoscoped scene...