Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conventional spectacles, Dr. Feinbloom explained, are simply magnifying glasses with lenses shaped like part of a sphere. No matter how much they magnify, they do not have enough "resolving power" to project a sharp image on the retina (the screen at the back of the eyeball) if the retina is damaged. Most partially sighted patients have retinas like a coarse-grained photographic plate: they can record a sharp image only if they are fitted with a lens of unusually high resolving power...
...process that fascinated audiences is called Natural Vision, a new twist on the old stereoscope and on MGM's 1937 two-reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...
...Cinerama (TIME, Oct. 13), which achieves the depth illusion by nearly surrounding the viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...from inclination to active application. But until this happens, the undergraduates need help. Some can come from college placement officers in their old secondary schools, who usually regard the boys they place in Harvard as so many feathers in their bonnets. They would usually be willing, if asked to screen out the best prospects and lead the undergraduates to them. Secondly, there should be a close link between the Undergraduate Schools Committee and the Admissions Office, to help students in these areas avoid the pitfalls of tact and judgement that the so common in the recruitment game. Dean Bender...
...Milland has the central role and is on the screen throughout the film. His actions did not seem exaggerated as one might expect in a silent film: the only aid to action was in the music. Written by Herschel Gilbert, the score was closely correlated to the goings on and seldom obtrusive...