Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some animated ones on the same bill, all UPA, that also are some of the best in their line. With them as a short subject, semi-cartoon, semi-surrealism, is a remarkable film in which designs and drawings have been painted directly on the frames of the film strip itself. It races by in wild color and sound like a fast dream, and is just as fascinating. Feature and shorts combined, the Kenmore this week is probably the best light film bill you will see in Boston all winter...
...paper disk. The disk is inserted, and once locked inside cannot be removed for examination (or cheating) until all the answers have been completed. The portion of the frame in which the correct answer is written is concealed until the student writes his own answer on a paper strip, visible through another opening...
When he has answered, he moves a lever and the cover concealing the answer falls away. If his answer is the right one and corresponds, he moves the lever horizontally. In doing this he punches a hole in his answer strip, ineradicably noting that he thought his written answer correct. This same motion advances the machine to the next frame, and at the same time changes the position of the disk so that the correctly answered frame will not appear again if the student goes more than one full circle on the disk. Even if the answer is incorrect...
Ingenuous, Ingenious. Herge's sunny creation is an ingenuous, ingenious teenage adventurer named Tintin, who acts like a Rover Boy, looks like the early Skeezix with his upswept lock of hair, and is easily Europe's most popular comic-strip character. French children once named him their favorite hero in a magazine poll, gave him nearly three times as many votes as Napoleon. Compared to U.S. characters, Tintin has a close kinship to Little Orphan Annie in his devotion to morality. Like Annie, oddly enough, Tintin has undeveloped eyes, e.g., she has circles but no dots...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...