Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Next? Actually, the momentous innovations involved nothing but the use of a wide-angle lens in the same old cameras, and a new screen for such theaters as cared to go to the expense. No prosceniums would have to be torn down, no costly lenses bought. Best of all, the backlog would be safe. Almost all the old pictures could be projected to fill the new, not-so-wide screens. True, about 25% would be lost from the top or bottom of the picture, but as Metro's Dore Schary sanely said. "All you lose is air, anyway...
...middle of last month, in short, the wide-screen revolution was looking more and more like an inventory sale; the three-dimensional revolution had still not proven itself to be anything more than a freak show; and Hollywood was in confusion, with production at a standstill...
Which way would the movies go? Fox was sticking with CinemaScope, and last week Warners announced that they would make 22 pictures in 3-D. Nevertheless, only one thing was sure, and Darryl Zanuck said it: "The small screen is through, through!" It was up to the public to decide what comes next, and last week the theater owners of the U.S. were moving at top speed to give the public an early chance to decide. Thousands of them had signed orders for "all-purpose screens" that can show everything from Cinema-Scope on down...
...Clair, most famous of the French moviemakers, foresaw another consequence of the wide-screen revolution. Quick, frequent shifts from one image to another would be impossible in CinemaScope. The eye cannot take in so large an image in one glance, and the mind is irritated by too rapid change of an image so encompassing that it seems like an environment...
...moving picture may therefore have little motion. The screen will become more like the stage, with the flow of action carried more by the words and gestures of the actors. It will have to become more "literary." Hollywood's actors, accustomed to memorizing one or two lines at a time and saying them just the way the director did, will actually have...