Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Catching some of Hollywood's excitement, the New York Herald Tribune editorialized on the 3-D age: "The flat screen, the silent screen, the uncluttered stage of Shakespeare and Marlowe, even the book in an armchair before the fire all have had their stimulating moments. What wonders may now be expected of a medium which out-engulfs all these predecessors and makes every man a voyager to a brave new world...
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Shirley Booth, Burt Lancaster (TIME...
...raised cartoon animation to high intellectual plane with stylized, angular drawing, while Disney's characters remain round, warm and fine companions. The drawing is so expert that after the first few minutes of watching the screen I forgot that Peter was being played by a number 3 indelible pencil...
Wing Sherm Saltmorsh slammed a long screen shot past Brad Richardson at 6:07 of the third period. A few seconds later, B.C. got its first penalty of the night, but the Crimson failed to convert, mainly because it, too, got a penalty immediately alterward...
...last, with Springfield Rifle the North seemed to be winning an engagement. There, on the screen, was Gary Cooper, obviously a hero, and he was wearing Blue! Soon, however, Cooper's elongated syllables marked him as no son of New England or Middle West. The truth came out. He was a renegade Virginian who had resigned his West Point commission only to reaccept it in time for First Bull Run. He then went west to perform yeoman service in breaking a gang of horse rustlers working with a fantastically honorable bunch of Southern officers. The real villain was a traitorous...