Word: technicoloration
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...space of four days, it demanded dissolution of alleged price-fixing agreements and competitive restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...
...Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made the excellent Colonel Blimp, it is surprising how little they get across, here, about human beings. The talk about the strange, compelling atmosphere of the place-a Lost Horizon routine in reverse -is just talk; lovely as some of the Technicolor photographs are, they bring little of the strangeness to the audience's eyes. Although some of the characters change, they change by sudden leaps & bounds, and without sufficient motivation...
...Yearling" far above any movie of nature, childhood, or animals that has appeared in the last few years. Its producers must have realized that the original novel needed no new "twists" or fetching young women, to be put across; just a few good astors, suitable scenery photographed in technicolor, and enough imagination to see the real movie possibilities of the book. All of these are here, and the result is something worth seeing...
...such movie as easily as a Ford part can be replaced. At best, they bustle through the plot using the lowest common denominator of human action, and at worst they are a bunch of Martians imitating home sapiens, having seen them once, from a lunar distance. So when the technicolor and Maureen O'Hara have cased to dazzle his eyes, the movie-geer will start to fidget in his upholstered chair, and hope that this one will turn out a little different...