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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeater" tubes are used to magnify the voice thousands of times in long-distance telephoning; sound movies, the "electric eye," remote control devices, X-ray, and television are all applications of the vacuum tube...
...wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they are loved by literally everybody everywhere...
Perhaps no one is less analytical, or cares less, about Walt Disney's Quality X than Walt Disney himself. He was actually puzzled when pundits discovered social significance in Three Little Pigs. "It was just another story to us," he says, "and we were in there gagging it just like any other picture. After we heard all the shouting, we sat back and tried to analyze what made it good. Then we tried consciously to put some social meaning into The Golden Touch. It ended with King Midas surrounded by his gold, hollering for a hamburger...
Impeccably groomed journalists on the platform of Liverpool Street Station were mistaken for a reception committee of impeccably groomed British statesmen last week by arriving King Christian X of Denmark. After shaking hands with them, His Majesty noticed their notebooks and pencils, remarked easily, "I see you are writers. I'll give you no trouble and will be a good...
...Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...