Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factor is cost. The sets will cost between $700 and $1,000 for a 12-in. screen in a console cabinet half again as large as current black & white sets. The color receiver alone will have almost three times as many parts as regular tubes, and the tube itself will cost $200 for a 12-in. screen, v. $24.75 for current 21-in. black & white tubes...
...land it was set in, and Escape from Fort Bravo took a fresh look at Hollywood's tired old Indian wars. Fred Zinne-man's From Here to Eternity did far more than the usual crude job of shoveling a bestselling novel through the censorship screen. Zinneman's epic is as moving a tale of men among men as all but the finest documentaries of World...
Miss Sadie Thompson (Columbia) is at least the third major screen version of the Somerset Maugham story about a missionary and a prostitute on a South Sea island. This one offers Rita Hayworth in the tart part made famous on the stage by Jeanne Eagels (Rain, 1922), and on the screen by Gloria Swanson (1928) and Joan Crawford (1932). Actress Hayworth adds no new luster to the old story...
...thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...
...mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...