Word: technicolorful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good is CBS color TV? Most TV critics agree that the picture it produces is generally excellent. The colors are soft, not glaring, and the image is easier on the eyes than black & white TV.* The difference is much more impressive than that between black & white movies and Technicolor. Because the TV screen is so much smaller than a movie screen, color gives a great deal more information. Football and basketball are easier to follow because of contrasting jersey colors; backgrounds are better defined and more realistic; clothes, food and furnishings become more attractive...
Since hardly anyone will have adapters and converters for home sets, CBS is relying on a series of public demonstrations of its color programs to stimulate quick interest. Most TV critics agree that CBS color is better than movie Technicolor, and CBS hopes that once the public starts seeing video revues in soft, restful colors and starts spotting contrasting jerseys in football games, black-and-white television will become a drab thing...
...picture's early promise of gentle parody is paid off first in juvenile whimsy and folksiness, finally in a mild flurry of standard ridin' & fightin'. Neither Technicolor nor all the warmth of McCrea's amiable personality can conceal the fact that the film is short on the basic ingredient of any western: action...
Based on a Robert Heinlein novel and filmed in technicolor, "Destination Moon" picks on a theme s unique that the move, almost by definition is highly incredible. This is to be expected, since heading for the moon at a clip of seven miles a second is a sensation no man has yet experienced. But the producers of the picture sometimes carry things to absurd extremes. For instance, when the rocket lights on the moon, the participants must first of all take part in a walky-talky interview via New York, for they are now celebrities...
Probably the chief trouble with this picture is its obvious lack of continuity. It is so loosely strung together that it resembles a vaudeville show much more than a biography. But if you like technicolor vaudeville, you will like the film...