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JOHNSON'S WAX is cleaning up with a highly polished, noncommercial film, To Be Alive!, which has drawn extravagant praise from cinema buffs and deserves every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pavilions, Children & Teen-Agers, Restaurants: The New York Fair: Aug. 28, 1964 | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...cans that has brought the pushbutton age to everyday living. There are already more than 300 products available in aerosol cans, and their uses range from the routine to the recondite; they perfume rooms, freshen mattresses, renew golf balls, stiffen petticoats, bandage wounds, de-ice windshields, inflate flat tires, wax furniture, varnish oil paintings, scare off snakes and ward off pregnancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: Not with a Bang But a Sssss | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

JOHNSON'S WAX. Filmmakers Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce a movie that is fast, fresh and free of commercialism. To Be Alive! opens on Manhattan's midtown madness, then starts life over again and leads the spectator along the joyous paths of childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored clam suspended over a reflecting pool is a short film of surpassing excellence. To Be Alive! sets off on a breathless safari to explore the joys of human experience. The triple-screen montage compiled by Alexander Hammid and Francis Thompson is fast and fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 31, 1964 | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

JOHNSON'S WAX has a fine film totally innocent of commercial or waxy intent. A little boy stares at the city through a prism that changes boredom to beauty. For the viewer the film does much the same thing. To Be Alive! is one of the few events worth a wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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