Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script called for a spaceman's view of a crash landing on the moon. For background music there would be the high whine of telemetry signals literally coming from out of this world. With the aid of some of the nation's greatest scientists and engineers, that unprobable show was precisely what the TV networks offered their audience last week. Live from the spacecraft Ranger IX came man's closest and sharpest look at his lunar neighbor...
Next year Hunter plans to realize the second phase of the revitalization by filming his script: "Sinister Madonna." Hunter describes the script as "neurotic little boys and beautiful little girls, and love. It should prove funny, serious, nasty, and beautiful...
Timothy McL. Hunter '62 and Jonathan Yale '68 have revitalized Ivy Films Research Inc. and next year will shoot hunter's script: "Sinister Madonna...
...Kennedy, the program twice repeats, greatly admires Edward Albee; accordingly the stage is hung with cobwebs, and populated by disparate fragments of a demented Negro girl. From Robert Allen's set we immediately get the theme of black against white (even without the huge black ravens which the script suggests should fly about the set during the first scene). Without surprise, we learn that Sarah (Barbara Ann Teer) had a white mother and a black father, that she rejected her father and his blackness, and that her agonizings have cost her her sanity and her hair (which has fallen...
Director Aldrich piles on a series of scream-in-the-night shocks, the better to batten a script strikingly short of sneakier surprises. In Charlotte's formula for terror, the nuttiest characters naturally turn out to be saner than anyone else. But there is rich menace in the dark, lushly mossy photography of Joseph Biroc, whose camera seems to have a malevolent presence of its own-a thing of shadows, catching the glint of an evil eye through the gossamer of steamed windows or sweeping up a curved balustrade that coils into the blackness below like an enormous question...