Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shady Lady (Universal) is characterized by a winning unpretentiousness. At various times during the course of this singing B, all activity comes to a sudden stop as some irrelevant piece of nonsense skitters around on the screen for a few moments. It's as if Producer-Director George Waggner felt he had to remind the audience periodically that this is only a movie, after all, and shouldn't be taken too seriously...
Duffy's Tavern (Paramount) brings to the screen radio's Ed Gardner & friends - and bolsters them with a star-spangled variety show...
Basic tool of Renshaw's method is a gadget for flashing images briefly on a screen. Students are given no time to ponder details; they have to grasp the whole picture fast. Renshaw starts them off with a four-digit number, showing it for 1/50th of a second. As the students learn, the numbers get longer. A student recently reproduced a twelve-digit number (568790154123) after looking at it for less than a second...
...1/75th of a second, named only one out of three. After training, the score of most increased to 80%. Professor Renshaw is now using his method in the peacetime job of speeding up sluggish readers. One student ("just a nice girl, no genius"), after 33 sessions with the flashing screen, speeded her reading of "heavy literature...
...Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...