Word: visualizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museum also gave Manhattan a look at what it considers good design in cars. Explained the show's curator, Arthur Drexler: "Automobiles... are no less worthy of being appraised for their visual appeal than were Venetian gondolas [and] English landaus." In the museum garden, blending nicely with its modern sculpture, were ten recent models: a Lancia and Siata from Italy, an MG and Aston-Martin from Britain, a snappy little Porsche from Germany, a Cométe and a Simca from France. The three U.S. models: a 1953 Studebaker, a Nash-Healey (standard Nash engine, with British chassis...
...character, but at the same time impressive in picturing the danger and frustration of the corvette's task. With several delicate director's touches The Cruel Sea communicates the breathless silence of perilous halts in mid-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...
...Educationists have drowned their schools in "oceans of piffle." They spend hours on such research projects as a "Tabular Summary of Frequency of Mention of Correlation Between Aspects of Teachers or Teaching and Certain Criteria of Teaching Success." They give courses in everything from "Administering the Use of Audio-Visual Materials" to "Dance s193C -Social Dance...
...idea for the "Hall of Our History" came to Milwaukee-born Eric Gugler, an architect who has already built a dozen memorials, but says he has "never been able to find a history of the U.S. in chronological order and in visual form in any one place." The granite history he plans will cost a monumental $25 million, to be raised by public subscription. Gugler's blueprints for the monument, which will take ten years to build, call for a roofless, granite structure (247 feet wide, 418 feet long and 90 feet high), fitted inside with high relief sculptures...
...Chicago, the annual convention of the National Audio-Visual Association claimed that more people are going to movies than ever before. But what they are seeing are not the big Hollywood productions, but 16-mm. industrial, educational and religious films. In the past 17 years the number of 16-mm. projectors has grown from...