Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answers is easy: CBS color is good-in some ways better than Technicolor. It adds depth and detail to the TV picture. The colors themselves are vivid but not harsh. Some programs-sports, for example-gain immeasurably with the addition of color. But a poor TV show, of course-tasteless comedy, tired drama or stale vaudeville routines-cannot be freshened by all the hues in the spectrum. An entertainment egg can be laid as easily in color as in black & white-perhaps more easily...
King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship on moviegoers; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...Scripter-Producer Lamar Trotti and played by Tyrone Power, the PT-boat officer who becomes a major of guerrillas is a stock movie hero. He is equipped with a comic sidekick from Pocatello (Tom Ewell), a Tommy gun that never needs reloading, a romance that blossoms in warmest Technicolor during interludes of song & dance. The book's love story has been revamped and overblown: its Spanish heroine (now French, presumably to accommodate the studio's contract with France's Micheline Prelle) is married to a wealthy Filipino planter but conveniently widowed in plenty of time...
...producers sensed the need for something extra to toss to the Technicolor camera, the picture rings in Dan Dailey, Harry James, Jeanne Grain, Reginald Gardiner and Victor Mature, all playing themselves in bit parts...
...Signal Corps in 1944. It tells the story of a single B-24 in its raid on the Ploesti oil fields, and of the thrilling escape of the plane's crew after it is shot down unintentionally by Yugoslav anti-aircraft batteries. This has some of the best Technicolor action shots to come out of the war. It is at the Exeter in Boston...