Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming a TV picture...
Cowboy Cinemactor Gene Autry galloped into Houston recently to whoop up the city's annual livestock show and rodeo. One day between performances, ol' Gene, ever alert to evil deeds on the screen, dozed off in his dressing room. While he snored, two small boys sneaked in, played with his pistols, tramped around in his fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled...
...alumni of Breland's university are his "Caseys at the Bat" (hens that play baseball). It takes a very short time, he says, for a hen to learn that when she tugs at a rubber ring, an electrically operated bat will knock a small ball toward a wire-screen outfield and a few grains of wheat will fall into a trough. So the hen pulls the ring, and then runs madly for "first base'' (the trough). If the ball is intercepted by mechanical "defensive players," she knows by experience that she will have to try again...
Cinerama Holiday (Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.), the second production in Cinerama, lacks the technical surprise of the first, and offers little to take its place. In This Is Cinerama, which grossed $20 million in only 14 theaters during the past 28 months, the giant curved screen caught the spectator in an emotional pincers movement and empathically lobstered him out of his seat; but in essence it was no more than a wraparound newsreel. Cinerama Holiday, in turn, is just an oversized travelogue, but a fairly lively and sometimes picturesque one. though often it is blatant enough to explain all those...
Born. To José Ferrer, 43. Hollywood and Broadway director (My 3 Angels) and actor (Moulin Rouge, The Shrike), and Rosemary Clooney, 26, jukebox and screen songstress (Red Garters): their first child, his second, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif...