Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tradition demands that amateur theatre groups at some point in their careers, produce a play by Shakespear. Actually, no other plays are quite so unsuited to non-professional treatment, because the Bard's familiar plots cannot divert audience attention from the actors' shortcomings. Each viewer is sure that he can--or has--played the role to something near amateur perfection. And heaven help the wretch who falls below this often exaggerated standard...
...stairs and catches the plump disarray of Lola as she wanders sleepily down to answer the door-bell; it watches the young boarder nuzzling her boy-friend; it peers across the room at Lola, confidently alone and wriggling happily to exotic music from the radio. Throughout the film, the viewer feels himself an embarrassed intruder on the intimacy of a real and frightening household--a tribute to Mann's direction and the expertness of the actors...
...star of the show was Actor Rod Steiger, who gave a tense and ably controlled performance as the GCA operator nursing the lost plane down its electronic path to safety. Steiger got so much realism into his acting that a viewer in Chicago phoned in to find out if he were actually a Marine radar operator. The answer: no. Steiger is a 27-year-old professional actor. During World War II, he got as far from aircraft as possible: he was torpedoman in a submarine...
...this celluloid third dimension is not the one we normally see. Sacrificing reality for illusory depth, this process, known whimsically as "Natural Vision," seems too real. Anyone who has looked into a stereopticon viewer knows that the effect of viewing a flat film from a different angle with each eye produces a false sense of overly pronounced depth. The individual figures seem to have depth as does the seem, but all figures are isolated in stages. So it is with Bwana Devil...
...Normal Vision" should not be confused with the process of Cinema. For "Normal Vision," the viewer must observe the picture through Polaroid glasses, and the screen is about stand and size. Since this is a new press, flaws are obvious and excusable. For instance, important syncronation of the dual mages makes moving figures Shimmer, as though viewed through a layer of slightly agitated water. Also, figures in a scene with depth, appear smaller than those in normal pictures. This means that the audience, in many cases, feels further away from the action than usual, thus defeating the purpose of three...