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Sometimes British Cinemaster J. Arthur Rank must feel that nobody in the world appreciates a really enterprising man. He might have expected cheers for his latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...
...fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...
...Blimey. Knight's plans are grandiose. Technicolor is supplying him with 800,000 feet of negative, 19 specially adapted cameras, 60 specially trained cameramen and technicians. He will dress his whole team in green trousers and white blazers, and provide motorized scooters to zip them about the grounds at Wembley. Knight himself will direct the whole business from a control booth just below the royal box-dangling his crews at the ends of eight miles of telephone line. This special telephone exchange, will be officially known as "Corinthian," already unofficially shortened to Cor-Blimey...
...black & white film will be processed daily by Rank and delivered to newsreels for editing before their ordinary biweekly releases. (Says Movietonews Editor Gerald Sanger: "It'll be like D-day all over again.") The Technicolor will be processed on a 24-hour basis. There will be 16 separate versions of it, each highlighting the athletes of a different nation and each in the language of that nation. (Red Barber, Ted Husing and Bill Stern will handle the American language.) The Games end Aug. 14; the world premiere of Rank's XIV Olympiad-The Glory of Sport will...
Easter Parade (MGM) would have more than enough if it presented nobody but Fred Astaire. Besides Astaire, it has Judy Garland, Peter Lawford, Technicolor, several old, durable songs by Irving Berlin, and some perishable but pleasant new tunes, also by Berlin. Besides all that, it gives the best role of her career to Ann Miller, who sports the most interesting thighs since the unveiling of Linda Darnell. There is also a story (Lawford-loves-Judy-loves-Astaire-loves-Ann), but nothing much need be said about that...