Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gold-colored dome of the central building gleaming in the background, then set off on a tour of the exhibits. They paused to test new TV equipment that enabled them to speak in front of a TV camera and then, right afterwards, to see themselves on a TV screen and hear a tape playback of their voices. As the camera turned his way, Khrushchev, wearing his floppy straw hat, looked sour. Said Nixon: "You look quite angry, as if you wanted to fight." It soon came out that Khrushchev was still considerably disturbed about the Captive Nations proclamation. "You have...
...February, old and worn from his labors, Tomikichi died, and wid01wed Toyono moved with her son into a little house in Hirokawa. Last weekend Toyono slipped away from a small party her son was giving, politely pulled the paper-screen door of her closet shut, and hanged herself with the blue-and-white sash of her Kurume-gasuri kimono...
...running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets, etc. This last time, when the doctor performs his autopsy, a cockroach-like incarnation of fear escapes, the movie stops, and the silhouetted "tingler" itself seems to be crawling on the blank screen...
High Pressure. The viewers at The Tingler's preview in Hollywood last week watched with a kind of critical apprehension. Surely, Horror Movie Expert William Castle, 45, had dreamed up a gimmick more devilish than that. He had. Seconds later, as the tingler was supposedly slithering across the screen, seats actually shivered and buzzed; the audience tingled for fair. Bill Castle had wired vibrators beneath almost everyone in the place...
...life insurance covering anyone in the audience who died of fright. The picture cost only $80,000, grossed an estimated $1,200,000. This year, Bill released The House on Haunted Hill. The picture cost $150,000, but he spent $250,000 manufacturing skeletons that dance off the screen and dangle out over the audiences. The gimmick has paid off so well that he expects to take in well over...