Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny Weissmuller, 43, for 17 years the screen's ranking Tarzan, conceded to his middle-aging middle, shed his breechclout for a bush-jacket in a new movie called Jungle...
...transferring Andre Gide's short tale, "La Symphonie Pastorale" to the screen, the responsible French parties have done it with such skill that if perfection is to be the goal of similar efforts, "Symphonie Pastorale" can well serve as the criterian...
...code of film censorship: "No picture shall be passed [by the board of film censors] which lowers the moral standards of those who see it." Films must not contain any drinking scenes or obscene words, nor should gods and goddesses in the ancient Hindu epics go strutting about the screen clad in a light or frivolous manner. Cried one harassed producer: "If all these rules are enforced, 90% of our films [in production] will never reach the screen...
...first method of counting atomic particles was by "scintillations." Using a microscope, early atomic physicists counted the tiny flashes of light that are made by particles from radium as they hit a fluorescent screen. As soon as Geiger tubes and other radiation detectors were developed, physicists gave up this tedious method. Counting scintillations by eye and microscope was about the most tiresome routine in physics...
...Board of Review bowed respectfully to Actress de Havilland, to Director Roberto Rossellini for his Paisan (which it called the best film, artistically, of the year), to Actor Walter Huston for his fine performance in Treasure of Sierra Madre, and to his son, Director John Huston, for writing the screen play of the same film...