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...anthropological expedition to unmapped jungles of Netherlands New Guinea, Michael Rockefeller, 22-year-old son of the New York Governor, peered through his horn-rimmed glasses and spotted a band of Willigiman-Wallalua warriors. Weeks later, the wanderlusting Harvard alumnus was still in his Baliem Valley element, excitedly filming "an area of the world and people never photographed before" and carrying out his special expedition mission: recording the off-beat music of the bellicose Willigiman-Wallalua, a harmonic grinding of teeth, backed by contrapuntal hoots and rumbles...
Occasionally, a movie is made in which the invisible director is the most important element. Such, happily, is the case with "The 400 Blows." The camera replaces much of the dialogue, elaborating, where words are inadequate, the emotional content of the script. It is this visual characterization that lifts "The 400 Blows" above its fairly familiar story of misunderstood youth and makes it a strikingly beautiful and affecting motion picture...
...said that he was "doubtful that science will notably change either the nature or the task of art, though it may change expression." However, he said while it is conceivable that the Einsteinian universe is gradually altering the way art conceives of time and space, similar conceptions were an element in French medieval drama, early Christian art, or Greek vase paintings...
...admen. Vance (The Status Seekers} Packard, while superficial in much of his work, is correct in pointing out that a key element in selling is to present a product so that it promises to satisfy some need for security or power...
...strongest element in the picture is the Hansberry script, which has the towering merit of presenting the Negro not as a theatrical stereotype or a social problem, but as an all-too-human being. For the rest, the film is a charming, passionate, superior soap opera in blackface...