Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the rules of the game, the boy makes the decisions. A girl never says "Don't," because she knows anyone from Harvard will considerately quit and apologize on the spot if she does. She says "Oh, please!" Another smoke screen is a series...
...screen was not likely to become a major issue in the U.S. as it had been in Britain (see below), but last week the U.S. TV industry was campaigning for votes of its own with all the vigor and many of the weaknesses of a full-fledged political campaign...
...Communist manipulator, are both topnotch. Dorothy McGuire is just right as the reformed fellow-traveling secretary who regretfully looks on as Ford gets caught in the snare; Rafael Campos (The Blackboard Jungle) is a good Angel. And the picture has another attraction: filmed in black and white for a screen of much less than the common contemporary width, it can be comfortably watched by people who do not have wall eyes...
Travelogues are, as a rule, pretty dreary stuff, with an off-screen commentator reading a script copied out of the World Almanac. Only seldom does a travel short even try to show the "natives" as people rather than as models for picturesque costumes. But Songs of the Auvergne, made by Miles Morgan '50, not only tries but succeeds impressively...
Television left Soldiers Field in 1951, when scheduling difficulties forced the cancellation of two broadcasts. In 1950, every University game has been televised. Before arrangements could be made for 1952, the NCAA adopted its famous "game of the week" plan, and Harvard teams went off the screen...