Word: technicolorful
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...claimed another triumph last week: network color television had been tested and proved. Using the Bell System coaxial cable, CBS had broadcast a Technicolor movie short and color slides from Manhattan to Washington (225 miles) and return...
This old sway-backed horse opera should have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
...lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops. Often as not, the brilliant Technicolor is deliberately anti-natural istic. Voice, word, gesture, human beings, their bearing and costumes retain their dramatic salience and sovereignty. The result is a new cinema style...
...most inspired sequence in the film. Olivier opens it with a crepuscular shot of the doomed and exhausted English as they withdraw along a sunset stream to encamp for the night. This shot was made at dawn, at Denham (a miniature British Hollywood) against the shuddering objection of the Technicolor expert. It is one of many things that Olivier and Cameraman Robert Krasker did with color which Technicolor tradition says must not or cannot be done...
...ever-loving cousin. We are confident he will not only be the first to popularize the atom, but will do the job in radiant Technicolor...