Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parakeet reactions to TV are fairly complicated. Lu Van Wiseman says that most of them go "nearly crazy with excitement" at the sight of their own kind on the TV screen. Certain music appeals to them ("They just love the Hopalong Cassidy theme song"). And some parakeets act like some people: they just stare at TV in a pained silence...
...hottest new Hollywood trend -three-dimensional films - got a supercharged boost, calculated to make TV owners dissatisfied with their cramped little 30-inch screens. Announced 20th Century-Fox: beginning in October, Fox's entire production output will be converted to 3-D color pictures. Unlike the 3-D method used by the Natural Vision Corp. in Bwana Devil (TIME, Dec. 15), the new process, called Cinemascope, gets its effect with only slight changes on the ordinary one-camera-and-one-projector system. Moreover, audiences will not be required to wear special polarized glasses. A curved screen, about...
Cinemascope uses a distortion and rectification principle: a wide-angle distortion lens fitted to a regular 35-mm. movie camera produces distorted images on the film; a compensation lens, fitted on a " regular out the 35-mm. images movie on the projector, screen. "straightens" out the images on the screen. The picture is synchronized to loudspeakers placed around the theater. The system is much less expensive than Cinerama (TIME, Oct. 13), which uses three cameras, three projectors and a larger curved screen. Cinemascope, said Fox, will be made available to other film companies...
...complete with a Hollywood happy ending. Nor is the star always the grandly tragic figure she is supposed to be. But if the scripters have not made the most of their theme, Bette Davis makes the most of her role. Her performance as an ex-first lady of the screen is first-rate. She is, by turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store...
Come Back, Little Sheba. William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...