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...intellectual jazzman with an experimental or complex swinging beat. For glossary of other modern jazz terms, see p. 66. *A drug whose effects include Technicolor illusions and a relaxed sense of time, enthusiastically described by Author Aldous Huxley in his book, The Doors of Perception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man on Cloud No. 7 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

...wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: White Christmas | 10/30/1954 | See Source »

...Technicolor is a little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...musical Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby first sang the song White Christmas. From the first scene (Christmas 1944) to the last (Christmas 1954), it is blatantly the I "big musical," a big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Hansel and Gretel (Michael Myerberg) shows what the Machine Age can do to an old folk tale. Based on Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 children's opera, Hansel is a 72-minute Technicolor production built around a new gimmick: electronically controlled robots with hands, eyebrows, and bodies that move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

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