Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture, had torn down the book and built it properly, starting the story at its real beginning, _ with the arrest of the Russian soldier, Grischa. after his escape from a German prison camp ? if he had shown the panorama of war moving around this insignificant figure in the foreground, getting across the tremendous implications involved in the in justice of Grischa's imminent fate, he might have made a masterpiece. Instead he allowed the anecdote to remain personal. The Case of Sergeant Grischa further suffers from such imperfections as polyglot accents among the cast; the fre quent...
...Days proves that this resounding phrase was not accurate. Although a "Grandeur Picture" fills a screen about twice as wide as the conventional size, it is only two feet higher. With its new width the camera can take in two characters talking at the same time in the middle foreground, without switching its eye from one to the other but to make the faces clear, the characters must be cut off at the knee. Another advantage of the wide film is that it makes motion more exciting: moving things can be kept in sight against the same background twice...