Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike. Hit of last week's industrial fair at Hannover, Germany, was a three-dimensional projection microscope designed by Dr. Friedrich Fehse of Hamburg. It projected repulsive little creatures (protozoa, bacilli, etc.) on a three-foot screen and enlarged them to the size of rabbits. Observers wearing polarized glasses got the shock of their lives. The blown-up varmints appeared to be swimming toward them, even reaching for them...
...Fehse explains that his microscope works rather like 3-D movies. It projects two images on the screen, each in a different kind of polarized light. Observers with polarized glasses see one image with one eye, and the other image with the other eye. So the creatures look solid and menacing...
After vanishing for nearly two decades, "The Ghost Goes West" materializes again, this time on the Brattle's screen. Combining slapstick and fantasy, Robert Sherwood's imaginative screenplay portrays the adventures of an ocean-going phantom...
...Director George (Shane) Stevens: "[Wide-screen] is a process ideally suited for high-school commencement photographs...
...process of being transferred to the screen, the Simenon novel has lost not only its original title but also much of its point. The book, in examining human frailty under stress, was an incisive study of abnormal psychology. Claude Rains's stiff performance and some thoroughly normal moviemaking turn the picture into a routine chase yarn...