Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obviously, the Faculty knows best how to teach such courses. Yet, many other schools have adopted different and highly successful methods of teaching elementary languages, the most bizarre example being Cornell's audio-visual-Lord-knows-what-else system. This dynamism has even rubbed off slightly on Harvard, in the form of the experimental French B section where students must at least speak French whenever they are in class. Perhaps more of this, perhaps a deeper draught on the Cornell system, might alleviate the medium of the present elementary courses...
Gone, too, unfortunately, are much of the liveliness and visual wit of such Chaplin achievements as City Lights (1931) and The Circus (1928). The picture often comes close to a halt with lethargic talk and lackluster philosophizing. Chaplin didn't intend Limelight to be a comedy; he calls it "a two-handkerchief movie." But most moviegoers should find one handkerchief ample. As drama, the picture is largely barren: the clown is not really in love with the girl nor she with him, although she tries to be, out of gratitude. Her heart's desire is a young composer...
Creer wants to make clear that pigs, sheep and steers do not necessarily see what their eyes "saw" when they were used as cameras. The image on the retina is "assembled" in the brain into a visual image. No one knows what the brain of a pig may make of a comic strip...
...Mephisto, whose bearded, grinning face constantly pops up at windows and peers out from behind shrubbery. As the young Faust, Gerard Philipe is a romantic figure. Director Clair describes his picture as "tragicomedy." It has neither the passion of Marlowe's and Goethe's Fausts nor the visual inventiveness of Clair's best films (Sous les Toits de Paris, A Notts La Liberte), but it is an unconventional and diverting treatment of a traditional tale...
Such a plane will be a serious rival to the ground-to-air guided missile. With no pilot (and therefore no pressurizing, cooling, ejection seats, visual instruments, etc.), it will be smaller and probably cheaper than a piloted interceptor and it should climb faster and fly farther...