Word: serially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York ... or shall it be the new nightmare, a great superblock, quiet, orderly, self-contained, but designed as if the fabulous innkeeper Procrustes had turned architect-a nightmare not of caprice and self-centered individualism but of impersonal regimentation, apparently for people who have no identity but the serial numbers of their Social Security cards...
...Gotta Stay Happy (Rampart; Universal-International) is a harmless and mildly entertaining little movie-unless it is butterfly-broken on the wheel of Social Significance. * It has lost none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...
...serial's heyday, women were the stars (Pearl White in 1913-14 in The Exploits of Elaine and The Perils of Pauline). But in 1935, Republic made millions out of The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry, and ever since it's been a man's world...
...Change of Hat. Serials now cost so much to make (four times as much as they used to) that the whole trick is speed and economy. Stock shots of escapes and chases are lifted from old films. All horses except the hero's and the villain's are picked for their nondescriptness; wheeled back & forth in front of the camera, five of them do the work of 50. In the same way, extras are multiplied by frequent changes of hat. Serial units frequently shoot 125 scenes, up to 18 minutes of finished film, in one day. Average...
...real gravy in the serial business comes from abroad. Serials flop in Britain, but they are regularly dubbed in French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese. In Latin America and Spain, where the fans can't wait, whole serials are often run off at one sitting...