Word: screens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME'S report on "Trucks on the Roads" noted that the whole issue has been complicated by "a smoke screen of publicity from the railroads" as well as the trucking lobby, which New York's Governor Dewey has defined as "a powerful, highly organized lobby, devoted exclusively to the purpose of preserving the extreme preference now enjoyed by the biggest trucks." In the interests of complete fairness and accuracy, TIME comments herewith on the five specific points singled out by American Trucking Associations, Inc. in a paid advertisement on the opposite page...
...touring show (Three's a Crowd), part demonstration of a new gadget called Sanabria Giant Television,* which transmitted a fuzzy image of Allen to an audience on the store's third floor. "I just stood there and talked," Allen recalls. "It must have come out on the screen like a jumping passport...
...Beggar's Opera (Warner) brings John Gay's renowned, raffish 18th century opera to the screen in English for the first time.* In the role of the highwayman Macheath, Shakespearean Actor Laurence Olivier also sings on the screen for the first time, in an agreeable, light baritone, and makes a fine, swashbuckling badman...
...distrustful of the present and worried about the future. ¶ At Warner Bros., the list of actors under contract reached an all-time modern low of six, including Virginia Mayo. ¶ The Technicolor musical Kiss Me Kate will be released in four shapes and sizes this November: 1) small screen flat, 2) small screen 3-D, 3) large screen flat, 4) large screen 3-D. Meanwhile, many movie-men were beginning to think that 3-D was less a shot in the arm than a bump on the head: box-office returns on the latest 3-D films are showing...
...Around Us. Rachel Carson's 1951 bestseller brought to the screen in beautiful Technicolor scenes of undersea life (TIME, July...