Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Telemeter (a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures) is already planning another test, this time in the suburbs of Manhattan, and is preparing such packages as Gian Carlo Menotti's The Medium on both film and tape. In charge: newly appointed Executive Producer Jean Dalrymple, Broadway veteran and director of the theater wing of New York's City Center...
Dramatically, the end of the film is false, but statistically it is true; rape and murder are commonplace in South Africa's black ghettos. Indeed, Director Rogosin's reading of the facts is conservative. He is scrupulously fair to the whites, and the camera leans over backward to avoid some of the more unpleasant aspects of life in the Johannesburg slums: the open sewers and the unchecked disease. But Rogosin shows enough squalor to stun the average comfortable North American, and to prove beyond rebuttal one of his main points: that under the Nationalist oppression, black...
Moviemaker Rogosin, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer (Beaunit Mills), made Come Back, Africa (the title is a translation of an African National Congress slogan) mostly at his own expense, and the film altogether cost close to $70,000. He entered South Africa as a tourist, lived there for almost a year before he felt ready to roll his cameras. In April 1958 he applied for government permission to make "a musical travelogue." After two months of palaver with six suspicious federal bureaus, Rogosin got his permit. He dashed off his script in less than a week, then shot...
...Oscar Wilde, observed in his novel, Picture of Dorian Gray: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." He would have had no cause for complaint last week in England, where segments of his life were being filmed in two different movie studios. At Elstree Studios, Producer Irving Allen, shooting The Trials of Oscar Wilde, threatened a court action to stop the work of Director Gregory Ratoff, whose production is succinctly titled Oscar Wilde. Then Allen told the London press: "I don't really recognize Mr. Ratoff...
...deals, Tom picked up the 45-station Don Lee network on the West Coast, bought control of the Mutual Broadcasting System, consolidated the lot into General Teleradio. Stepping nimbly into television, he began syndicating old Hollywood movies to stations across the U.S., was soon shopping for a larger film library. After weeks of haggling, Tom bought the shaky RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. from Howard Hughes for $25 million, started distributing RKO's backlog of some 700 films on television. Says Tom's father: "That Tom, he sure makes money...