Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Hall of Fame. The off-Broadway musical "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," is a comic-strip come to life. CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...crannies of everyday life. The style is lively and talkative, despite a vocabulary drawn from Marx, Sartre and the structuralists. The subjects covered by the short essays making up most of the volume are fascinating and immediate: professional wrestling, Garbo's face, soap powders and detergents, ornamental cookery, strip-tease, plastic...
...marines. He deserved to die. The prisoner lay on the ground amidst the debris of battle-spent brass, empty ration cans, cabbage leaves, broken glass. He was still alive, his eyes open but no longer seeing. One marine took off his own tattered boots and began to strip the dying man of his. Five minutes later the prisoner died, expression frozen, feet bare. The marines began to move out, one of them in a fresh pair of boots...
...ferry Nigerian Moslems making their pilgrimages to Mecca. Jordanian and Nigerian authorities differed on the cause of the crash. The Jordanians maintained that the runway had collapsed and that Pilot John Waterman, 53, an American with 22,000 jet hours, lost control because of the depression in the strip, which snapped the plane's rugged landing gear. The plane then slued off the runway and burst into flames when fuel lines were punctured...
Techniques like this speak the language of the comic strip as much as that of film. A forthcoming book by Francis Lacassin (excerpted in Film Quarterly, Fall, '72) shows how comics contributed many of the elements of film syntax which the sequence has now adopted. Subtle choices of angle of view, depth of field, movements within the composition of each frame, use of the "subjective camera" to pick out important details-all these make up a language which comic strips were using before the development of motion pictures. That film continues to borrow and share these elements is indicated...