Word: warners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...STANLEY Warner Corp., the exhibition company that resulted from the anti-trust split-up of Warner Brothers, expects to buy half of Cinerama Productions, Inc. (moviemaker for Cinerama). The Cinerama company, which is short of cash and has lost some of its backers' enthusiasm since the introduction of CinemaScope (see Cinema), would sell a million shares of unissued stock. A big stumbling block, the Justice Department, having once split Warner's moviemaking and exhibiting functions, may look askance on such a deal...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...
...revolution continued, with some sporadic flare-shooting on the side. ¶ Warner Bros., which stopped production and cut salaries a month ago, announced "44 top-bracket pictures," to be released by September 1954. Since 20 of these have already been completed, actual production will be down about one-third. Warners is preparing a new 3-D system: "widescreen WarnerScope," described as a new process under development for "many years . . . With expansive use of 3-D photography . . . Warner Color and WarnerPhonic Sound ... we have just begun to tap the enormous resources . . ." ¶ M-G-M is cutting its output nearly...
...genealogical book and confirmed by a member of the College of Arms: on her mother's side, the Queen is a second cousin, seven times removed, to George Washington; and a fifth cousin, five times removed, to General Robert E. Lee. The common ancestor was a Colonel Augustine Warner, who came to Virginia...
House of Wax also proves that the Warner technique is not yet perfected. Even with the polaroid glasses nestled snugly against your eyes, you will still occasionally see a double image. The resulting flutter is tiresome to the eyes, and only a ten-minute intermission between reels makes the rest of the film bearable...