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...televiewers would have preferred fewer human actors and more Disney cartoons. What they saw was some polished foolery in bits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Song of the South, The Clock Cleaners and a chase sequence featuring Pluto and a vindictive bulldog. The bonus offering was a "thumbnail" preview of the Mad Tea Party scene from the new Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, scheduled for release late in 1951. Alice boasts the usual high level of Disney invention: Ed Wynn's voice is dubbed in for the Hatter, Jerry Colonna's strident accents for the March...
...This thumbnail review by an indiscreet studio executive was about all that the public really had to go on before RKO rushed Producer-Director Rossellini's Stromboli into more than 400 U.S. theaters this week. After loudly ballyhooing the movie for weeks as a kind of lurid peepshow ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), the studio had suddenly refused all advance screenings for movie critics. The reason, RKO frankly admitted, was fear that unfavorable reviews might cool the fever of public interest in the Stromboli idyll of Director Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (TIME...
...Swiss film was a diffuse blend of travelogue and art catalogue, distinguished mainly by its sensitive photography. A group of young film craftsmen-Producer Robert Snyder, Director Richard Lyford, Writer Norman Borisoff-took it apart and put it together again. Their new script uses a tighter story continuity, thumbnail art critiques, a telling musical score and a narration spoken by Fredric March...
...killing dose of the chemical to be tested. After a week or so, a girl kills the mouse by crushing its fragile skull. Then she slits open its belly skin and measures the cancer, which is usually by this time a grey-pink, rounded mass as big as a thumbnail. If the tumor has disappeared or has not grown as much as expected, the chemical is listed as promising enough for further testing...
...York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...