Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please and so hit-or-miss in its shotgun methods adds a human element that is rare in modern-day comedy...
Perhaps the outstanding feature of this movie is the integrity of its producer, Claude Autant Lara, in moulding the story for the screen. The plot must have posed many problems in presentation, most of which have been solved quite nicely. M. Lara has managed to be adequately delicate without sacrificing too much impact...
Tragedy in four acts will flash across the screen in New Lecture Hall at 8 p.m. tonight when movies of the 1949 Harvard Yale football game will be shown...
...Tube. Other color systems besides those of the main contestants have been proposed to FCC. The "line sequential" system of Color Television Inc. uses a single picture tube with three blocks of different colored phosphors on its face. The colored pictures are combined by projection lenses on a common screen. But C.T.I. has not shown its color pictures officially, and no one is sure how good they are or will...
...careless youth of the cinema, long before the first feature-length film, the U.S. screen was as free as the U.S. press. Then, in 1907, Chicago gave birth to movie censorship. Last week, after decades of kowtowing by a timid film industry, enemies of censorship made a strong bid to end the reign of censors now entrenched in seven states and 50 cities...