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...Producer Stephen Bosus-tow, 42, has proved his point that "the animated film can be used for drama and melodrama as well as for humor, childish romance, pratfalls and 'hurt' gags." Canadian-born Steve Bosustow founded United Productions of America seven years ago after being fired by Walt Disney. In his own company, he operates without time clocks and gives credit where credit is due. Director Ted Parmelee and Art Designer Paul Julian get most of the bows for The Tell Tale Heart, just as other U.P.A. production teams are accorded credit...
...California's Oxnard Airport one afternoon last week, Pilot Walt Davidson clambered into a two-engine plane which had a curious, U-shaped bend in each wing. He started it down the runway and, after a run of only 90 ft., the plane soared into the air at 30 m.p.h. Davidson climbed to 1,000 ft., then circled the airport for four minutes before coming in for a bouncy landing at 40 m.p.h...
...promising if not too imaginative continuation of a recent Hollywood tendency to take a few cameras off famous faces and train them on the fascinating visage of nature itself. The pacemaker of this trend: Walt Disney's series on animal and vegetable life (Beaver Valley, Nature's Half-Acre, etc.). All these films have their faults; most of them, The Sea included, are burdened with a spoken commentary that comes little short of patronizing God. Yet they are giving ailing Hollywood a much-needed transfusion of real lifeblood...
...developed a valuable new research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets of Life-plus a contract for regular showings of his flower-growth films on Dave Garroway's NBC-TV feature Today...
Peter Pan. Walt Disney's lighthearted, feature-length cartoon adaptation of J. M. Barrie's fantasy (TIME...