Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expensive step after another. As a result, cost-conscious TV stations still rely on network news shows, wire-service newsreels, or on such local "newscasts" as an announcer sitting at a desk reading bulletins, or a display of still pictures, headlines and press-service bulletins flashed on a screen...
...worries for newspaper reporters. On a big story, the principals often have little time to talk to newsmen: they want to do all their talking in front of TV cameras. Still cameramen, who have sweated to get good pictures, have been beaten by pictures snapped from the TV screen in the office. And editors, sitting before a TV set in the office, have often been able to point out caustically things that their reporters on the spot have missed...
...innocent coquetry that makes her far more alluring than most of Hollywood's veteran vamps; 2) a look at brilliant Director Vittorio (Miracle in Milan) De Sica as an actor. De Sica, 49, an Italian matinee idol before he turned to directing, proves handsome and talented on the screen, but he would have done this picture more good behind the cameras than in front of them...
...picture lops off the last fourth of the novel (which piled melodrama on melodrama, with Aissa shooting Willems), and some of Conrad's tropical thunder reaches the screen only as a muted rumble. But by making much of his movie on location in Borneo and Ceylon, Director Reed has captured the rank, overwhelming atmosphere with which the story is saturated: the landscape of brown golds and brilliant emeralds, the oppressiveness of the jungle, the steaming sunshine, the murmuring river, the endless chattering and chanting of the natives...
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture...