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...process. Last week the first trains finally ran through the Locust Street tunnel (providing a high-speed connection between the business district and Camden, N.J. via the Delaware River Bridge). But nobody had any such hopes for another ancient and expensive Philadelphia subway hole in the ground, the Arch Street tunnel, used only as a storage place for rivets and old rails since its excavation...
...third dimensional traps into which author, producer, and director Arch Oboler blundered is the temptation to "throw" things at the audience. Lions leap, spears hurtle, feet kick, and Miss Britton pushes her puckered lips right at the camera. These are gimmicks, and poor ones, since the third dimension does not seem to work near the camera. The image becomes blurred and Miss Britton develops another head. The only sensation that the audience feels is one of eyestrain. But equally poor are long distance shots, backgrounds seem that and artificial. The best effects come in the middle distance, although close...
Next day Tito's Foreign Office summoned the Vatican charge d'affaires in Belgrade and formally broke off diplomatic relations with the papacy. Tito was mad at the Vatican for conferring the Cardinal's red hat on his arch enemy, Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac, who served five years in a Tito jail and is now restricted to his home village...
...Cinerama (TIME, Oct. 13), which achieves the depth illusion by nearly surrounding the viewer with the picture, Natural Vision was developed by Milton Gunzburg, an ex-screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...central room contains display cases, and is intended to give the impression of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...