Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renaissance courtyard of the Fogg Museum provided ideal visual and acoustical surroundings for this evening of lovely Renaissance music...
...those of Finnegans Wake, yet the cast handles them with universal aplomb. Breaking up the speeches among various characters on the stage does away with the monologue effects one is liable to get in reading, when often the various speakers are practically indistinguishable. Moreover, though many of Joyce's visual puns are lost in the transition to the stage, the actors' interpretations through pantomime and inflection clear up a number of obscurities and carry the auditor happily through scenes where he might easily be left wallowing in confusion...
...true distinction. Through the efforts of the director and his color adviser, Gate of Hell proves what few Western pictures have ever hinted: that the camera's eye for detail and motion and the artist's eye for design and color can work together to produce a work of visual as well as dramatic impact...
...Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...
Between the sketches, the camera plays a huge assortment of visual games to help the narrator introduce the next sketch. But no matter how clever the camera gets it's no match for the author, who never gives trick photography the impossible task of seeming hilarious all by itself. Instead, photography is always in support of some well though-out gag, reinforcing its humor to give the dividend of trickery. For instance, the narrator lists the subjects of his study on a blackboard, by pointing his finger the writing appearing by itself. But the blackboard gets uppish and keeps listing...