Word: technicolors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
...have switched to the long-named chemicals which agricultural scientists call plant hormones (e.g., alpha-naphthalene-acetic-acid). Most plant hormones are still experimental and not in general use, but they are currently the biggest excitement in agricultural science. By all reports, they are working like Disney magic in Technicolor...
Would you like to know the exact lo cation of Heaven? What its inhabitants look like, their occupation, and whether the children grow up? These and other questions will be answered in a clear and simple way in a lecture given in Advent House Chapel, on Friday night. ... A Technicolor filmstrip will follow the lecture. (Advt...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a cluster of sickly natives, including several girls with rings in their noses who would never get a screen test." The G.I.s, stared in speechless horror- until "a colored soldier won immortality ... by throwing back his head and crying, in a long, high wail, 'Iran! Land of romance...
Anchors Aweigh (M.G.M.), a shore-leave saga with music, dancing, and Technicolor's full palette, is easily the pleasantest couple of hours that can be bought currently in a movie theater. Its standard-bearers : Gene Kelly, a sailor fairly enough described as the Sea Wolf; his sidekick Frank Sinatra, a shy type but eager to learn; Kathryn Grayson, a movie extra who wants to become a famous singer; and José Iturbi, who is surprised but very nice about it when Miss Grayson, being kidded by the sailors, turns up for an audition...