Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like her sister cans, she seldom figured in communiques, but she was beloved by the big ships whenever there was trouble. ("Screen us, Pat!") She rescued 124 men from the blazing Ommaney Bay. She rescued 106 survivors of the Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jima. She fought off Okinawa. When there was nothing else to do she carried the mail...
Sergeant Lew Ayres, once famed as the screen's lofty and antiseptic Dr. Kildare, now a veteran and still a conscientious objector (though he thinks compulsory military training might be a good idea), got back from the Pacific, where he was a chaplain's assistant with a hospital unit, made first-wave landings -on Leyte and Luzon. His post-discharge plans: perhaps a go at writing, producing or acting in educational and religious movies, "teaching men to understand one another...
...demonstration began with two pretty girls on a stage being televised by old-style equipment under glaring lights. When some of the lights were switched out, the girls faded off the television screen set up in front of the audience. The old camera could not see them. Then R.C.A.'s new "image orthicon" pickup tube went into action, and the girls reappeared on the screen, brighter than ever...
More lights were turned out, but the girls still smiled self-consciously from the screen. At last, in the flattering light of a single candle, the girls on the stage looked lovely but dim. Their televised images on the screen were as bright as if seen in a well-lit room. The image orthicon, 100 times as sensitive as earlier tubes, had actually amplified the light reflected from their faces...
...most startling-and corniest-stunt came last. With the studio in pitch darkness, the television screen showed a radio announcer making stagy passes at one of the girls. From a balcony, an infrared projector was shooting "black light" on the stage; the all-seeing image orthicon (sensitive to infra red) was spying on the couple...