Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CLOSED-CIRCUIT COLOR TV is coming next year for corporate sales meetings, and to show off new products. Newly formed closed-circuit Telecasting System got six-month head start on competitors by buying first 30 big-screen projectors from RCA for $250,000. Manhattan company will use projectors in auditoriums, hire RCA cameras and technicians, rent A.T. & T. wires to transmit color programs across...
...John Patrick's Broadway play based on Vern Sneider's novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1954. Translated to the screen by Playwright Patrick and Director Daniel Mann, it will probably impress most entertainment shoppers as one of the better comedy buys of the season...
...nature films, is everything the eye could wish, but rather more than the ear can bear. The music sounds like a sneak attack on Debussy by MacNamara's band, and the commentary reads like a TV pitch for nature's way, spelled backwards. Yet across the screen there moves in lustrous color a beautifully photographed freak show. At its best, it is popular science at not very far from its best...
Around the World in 80 Days. Producer Mike Todd, with the help of Jules Verne, 46 stars and $6,000,000 has created what is certainly the most spectacular travelogue ever seen on the screen (TIME...
Lust for Life. Perhaps the finest film biography of an artist (Vincent van Gogh) ever made in Hollywood; almost a hundred of Van Gogh's paintings are shown in full, fulminating color on the screen; with Kirk Douglas (TIME, Sept...