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Word: technicolorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasure Island (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is Walt Disney's first movie made with live actors only. For a generation of small fry brought up on comic books, its Technicolor is gaudy enough to bring Robert Louis Stevenson's classic to life. For adults, the film will prompt sentimental memories of their first encounter with cached doubloons and double-crossing buccaneers-and perhaps make them wonder a little that they could ever have taken it so seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 24, 1950 | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...White Tower (RKO Radio] is a mythical Swiss Alp, so high and treacherous that no climber has ever reached the top. Created by James Ramsey Ullman in his 1945 bestselling novel and recreated in Technicolor on Alpine locations, it is the setting of a carefully rigged story about six climbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Destination Moon (George Pal; Eagle Lion Classics) proves that, in Hollywood, the sky's no longer the limit. The picture speculates entertainingly in Technicolor on what may happen when man takes his first 240,000-mile flight by rocket to the moon. For a piece of science fiction, it has a surprising amount of respect for scientific fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

Betty Grable, it has been said, has the prettiest legs in Hollywood. She also has a pretty face and other lovely features. However, in this technicolor musical of life in Chicago during the 30's, she tries to act. This is very sad because Betty Grable has the prettiest legs in Hollywood, a lovely face, and some other lovely features...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wabash Avenue | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...real chase, no duels at sunup, no good saloon scenes, no cavalry, and no murdered budides. Only once does a man pull an arrow out of his chest. One redeeming feature is that the women, one in each picture, are quite attractive. Of course, both are filmed in Glorious Technicolor...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

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