Word: camera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judges at indoor track meets look very, very good, but when they are bad-as they were two weeks ago, at the Wanamaker Mile in Madison Square Garden-they look horrid. At the Wanamaker tape the photofinish crew took a picture that showed several fat official rumps blocking the camera's view of the cat's-whisker finish between Don Gehrmann and Fred Wilt. The judges, relying on their own eyes, deadlocked 2 to 2, and Chief Judge Asa Bushnell, voting himself, declared Gehrmann the winner...
Candidates are taught how to use the CRIMSON's modern fully-equipped press camera as well as a new speed-flash outfit. All film, bulbs and other photographic supplies are furnished...
Montgomery, who had some promising ideas about directing movies (his Lady in the Lake substituted the camera for the hero's eyes), intends to experiment with TV techniques. By spending nine days on rehearsal of each fortnightly Theater show, he hopes to find ample time for experimentation. Says he: "Quite possibly we will find things we can do on TV that cannot be done in the cinema, theater, or radio...
Sticking closely to the play, the action, except for a few opening shots, is pinned down to a group of thatched huts which serve as hospital wards; the story, which entails a good deal of talk, is penned in by the calculated artifice of theatrical form. The camera adds little more than the emphasis and searching intimacy of closeups. Yet a fine cast under Director Vincent Sherman gives a performance that should tie audiences into emotional knots. The picture's best job: a superlative portrayal by British Actor Richard Todd in his first major screen role...
...camera looks at all this with a pleasing reticence instead of peering open-mouthed at people and events as movie cameras are often prone to do. It is aided by Dmitri Tionkin's dissonant musical background which somehow manages to underline rather than intrude...