Word: short-subjects
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Originally, of course, every movie was a short. The first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery, made in 1903, was a 10-min. Western. But advances in technology and changes in viewing habits meant that by the '60s, shorts had become the currency of film schools and festivals, and by 2005 they had lost so much pop-culture clout that short-subject Oscar winners had to accept their awards in their seats, with their backs to much of the audience. "Next year they're gonna give out Oscars in the parking lot," joked host Chris Rock...
...television was threatened last week by a routine Silver Theater show (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS-TV). The half-hour presentation, His Brother's Keeper, unusual only because it was shot entirely in film, was the first example of a multi-camera filming method devised by Hollywood's short-subject veteran Jerry Fairbanks, assisted by Silver Theater Producer-Director Frank Telford...
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