Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poor, patient Dr. Seyss-Inquart was in much the same spot as a fuddyduddy professor in a classroom of rowdy boys. He found it necessary to jail a 50-year-old businessman and his two sons for "demonstratively averting their eyes from the screen on which a newsreel of the Commissioner was shown." He transferred all four Dutch radio transmitting stations to State ownership because of sly jibes in their broadcasts. He was outraged by a decision of the annual synod of the Dutch Reformed Church to begin all church services with a prayer for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other...
...together from superimposed drawings on celluloid; 3) stage sets and sculptural models of Disney characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from Steamboat Willie to Pinocchio...
Meet The People (produced by The Hollywood Theatre Alliance) is the Manhattan version of the leftish little revue put together in Los Angeles last year by young screen folk who tried to make a lark out of their distaste for Hollywood and Conditions Generally. It appeals in a genial, lively way to those who like social messages in syncopated time and aren't too particular about really instinctive talent and personality...
...screen, due to constructional troubles, these sure-fire ingredients never quite jell into good melodrama. Scenarist John Balderston's script spends so much valuable time setting the scene and building the characters, it has to whisk through Mr. Jones's horrendous visit to Samburan. A line-up of Hollywood's most finished actors, nicely guided by the delicate directional hand of John Cromwell, holds long points, like patient bird dogs, for the chills. Then in a few hurried strokes, the villains are disposed of and it is time for the clinch...
When Chad Hanna appeared in the Saturday Evening Post as Red Wheels Rolling it had the attraction of Walter D. Edmonds's popular writing. Producer Nunnally Johnson's screen treatment glosses over the banality of the plot, becomes a simple, artful study of an ordinary, unimportant man. For Chad it has. lanky, loose-jointed Henry Fonda, one of the screen's few leading men able to say "ain't" without wincing. Grey, grumpy Director Henry King, who usually handles Fox's spectacles, resisted the temptation to let his camera linger on the Techni-colored accoutrements...