Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...centers operating, with doctors practicing in groups, and it also wanted more pay and more hospital privileges for general practitioners. It urged a nominal charge (as little as 70? a week) for board & lodging in hospitals, and a token fee of 28? towards the cost of each X-ray film and each pair of spectacles...
...Eastern TVmen, Fireside's surge has caused some alarm: it strikes directly at their ambition to make New York the television center of the U.S. by concentrating on "live" shows. Not only is Fireside produced in Hollywood, but it is done on film and costs less than such $20,000-and-up New York productions as Philco Playhouse, Robert Montgomery Presents and Ford Theater, Fireside actors are relatively unknown and scripts are picked impartially from obscure free-lance writers and the classics. Producer Brewster Morgan and German-born Director Frank (Maedchen in Uniform) Wisbar will try almost anything. They...
Convinced of the basic advantages of film ("Live TV depends on actors ad-libbing in front of a live camera"), Producer Morgan started Fireside Theater in 1949, from the start had a sponsor (Ivory Soap, Duz, Crisco). Originally, each show consisted of two separate, 15-minute playlets, but this technique had a serious drawback: "People who didn't like the first show sometimes switched before the second one came...
...naughty words on automobiles in the London working-class suburb of Islington, where he grew up. (His "racing family" refers to his father's occupation as a jockey.) At 14, he got a job sharpening pencils and carrying tea to movie-cartoon animators in Alexander Korda's film company, got his bosses to let him trace some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught...
While feigning a respectable amount of civilized horror at the exigencies of battle, Breakthrough romanticizes the hell out of war. On the level of a shoot-'em-up action film with some coincidental resemblance to the events it pretends to depict, it is a well-staged, workmanlike job. As any kind of memorial to the men who died in its newsreel clips, it is a great deal less...