Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dancer in burlesque, grandly confided his ideas for a proposed girlie show (starring W.W.) at a Las Vegas saloon next month. "They'll have three TV cameras in front of me, simulating a newscast, and monitors all over the club so I can be seen on the screen too. I'll close that part of the show with some advance info on the stock market. Then I'll go into a soft shoe with the girls, followed by a hot mambo with one of the girls . . ." The finale: "Onstage, you'll see an exact replica...
...electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen is far superior to film, and distinguishable from live shows only by experts...
...acting. Alec Guinness has made himself one of the most expert living masters of his craft. On the stage he ranks with Olivier, Gielgud, Richardson, in the Big Four of British acting, and he is recognized as the most gifted character actor of the English-speaking theater. On the screen his 17 films-among them such comic classics as Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Captain's Paradise-have won him a world audience as one of the most subtle and profound of all the clowns since Chaplin...
...Chapel stands in the name of Him whose birth was heralded by the words, 'Peace on earth, good will towards men.'" The church was modeled after King's Chapel in Boston, and though it contains no altar, there is a Christian cross moulded into the woodwork of the choir screen...
Cinema's latest gimmick for bigger entertainment spreads itself on the world's largest indoor screen, and once again fails to prove that bigger movies make better movies. The new film process, tagged "Cinemiracle" by its sponsors, National Theaters Inc., has a field of vision (146° wide, 55° high) almost equal to that of the human eye (160°-60°) and, at the renovated Roxy Theater in Manhattan this week, got tucked in on a canvas 100 ft. long, 40 ft. high. Like Cinerama, Cinemiracle is shot through three cameras, translated through three projectors...