Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ocean for rescues or repairs, and there are two scenes remarkable for stark visual impact-the sinking of H.M.S. Compass Rose, and the running down of floating survivors in a vain attempt to destroy a U-boat. Impressive also is the film's attention to detail; the viewer becomes completely familiar with the Compass Rose, the radar screen on the bridge, the pistons in the engine room, and he begins to listen himself for the sonar pings that warn of a nearby U-boat...
...Manhattan, a midtown gallery was showing stained glass by 18 living Americans, many of them well-known painters. Among the standouts was a rectangular abstraction by I. (for Irene) Rice Pereira, done in two layers of glass whose straight lines seemed to shift their positions whenever the viewer shifted his. Equally original, but with more feeling, was Peter Ostuni's abstract evocation of three shadowy figures, composed mainly of cracked plaques and crushed chunks of colored glass melted directly onto a white pane...
...Aldous] Huxley's prophetic description [in Brave New World) of what civilization will be satiating itself on in some future popcorn bazaar. The feelies could not only be seen, smelt and heard but they could be "felt" with the aid of knobs attached to the arms of the viewer's chair. Thus a passionate kiss will become a personal sensation and a painful blow will become a source of masochistic satisfaction...
...practiced since that memorable day in 1907 when Rescued from an Eagle's Nest was released and people hurried in by the dozens to watch a baleful old bird, unmistakably stuffed, clutch a helpless infant in its claws and fly away to eat it up. Gone is the viewer's sense of eavesdropping on activities that are, after all, going on in another room. In CinemaScope, the illusion in the other room outflanks the beholder in his theater seat and overwhelms him with a frontal attack of enormous images and sounds. Audiences will be put, especially with...
Beyond the annoyance of glasses, this kind of 3-D has many faults, some of them incurable. Objects on the screen look solid, all right, but unless a viewer sits in a favorable part of the theater, they are distorted -either flattened or pulled out toward him. A certain amount of eye-strain appears almost inevitable...