Word: sound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only two existing reels of "A Touch of the Times" in his briefcase and heads for New York in a day or so, the film will start a long and arduous stretch of "conditioning" for the commercial market. It must be reproduced on 16 and 35 mm. sound film, and have the specially composed musical score dubbed in before its professional premiere...
People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...
...atomic scientists were scattering opinions as fast and freely as a cyclotron shoots out particles. Each pronouncement, analyzed separately in an emotional vacuum, might be sound. But it seemed to the public last week that the experts were talking in discordant tongues and at cross purposes...
...Family. The audience recovered from its surprise quickly enough to admire the fair play of the Academy's 1,450 voting members. For some, another surprise was the fate of 20th Century-Fox's major contender, The Snake Pit, which won only one award, for its sound recording...
...Reed's handling of Bobby Henrey. To establish the child's-eye view of the story, he has turned his cameras loose in Felipe's own waist-high world, bounded by embassy balustrades and the butler's well-creased pants. To sharpen the effect, the sound track, like a child's half-focused attention, sometimes catches only half the adult talk. The rest is lost in half-heard mumblings...