Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just like the movies, with closeups, the whole works. But you know that isn't enough time. We start shooting promptly at 9 a.m. and never finish until 6. And still we don't have enough time. Some scenes that you see on the screen have never been rehearsed. I just read the script and they shoot...
...Devil, it still becomes blurry at times, and there is often little illusion of depth, particularly in closeups. The picture's writing and direction are also blurry, and the extra dimension is used primarily as a trick. All sorts of objects pop out at the audience from the screen: fists, a skeleton's hand, cancan dancers' legs, guns, pickaxes, spears, falling bodies. As Waxworks Proprietor Price says at one point: "I'm going to give the people what they want-sensation, horror, shock." If, as Hollywood fondly hopes, this is what moviegoers want, House...
Tantalizing Clues. To a world that had hoped for changes after Stalin's death, the eight-day offensive was bewildering, welcome, sinister. Statesmen, pundits and plain reporters marshaled and studied the facts. What did they portend? A basic change of attitude in the U.S.S.R.? An elaborate maneuver to screen further aggressions from the world? A deadly feud among Stalin's heirs? Except for the party-liners and the starry-eyed (who joined in saluting the peaceful intentions of Malenkov & Co.), no man could get to an answer. But there were some tantalizing speculations to be made...
...currents. One epileptic patient, when a particular spot was stimulated, suddenly said, "I can see Joe." He soon explained that often, before a seizure, he had a mental picture of himself bathing with his friend Joe. The electrical stimulus had flashed that picture on his mind's screen. What may be just as important was the researchers' letdown: they could never get that picture back again...
Successfully combining new talent with an old play, the screen version of The Importance of Being Earnest is as amusing as it is dated. The result is a mocking comedy at the expense of an extinct species...