Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Does TIME know where Producer Curt Oertel, who made the Michelangelo film The Titan [TIME, Jan. 30], now lives? While serving with U.S. combat forces in April 1945, I found him in a little village which is now within the Russian-occupied zone of Germany. At that time he was working . . . on a documentary of famous German...
...Swiss Producer Oertel now lives in the U.S.-occupied town of Wiesbaden, where he is working on a new documentary film (in color) on the life, times and work of 16th Century Flemish Painter Pieter Bruegel...
...minute travelogue of Stromboli in an 89-minute film. When things get dull, they throw in a little...
...public turmoil that a whole stable of pressagents could hardly reproduce. Church groups, women's clubs, legislators and local censors in more than a dozen states joined in demands that the picture be banned. At least one movie exhibitors' association urged its members not to book the film. Movie bigwigs ordered a sequence of Actress Bergman in Joan of Arc snipped from a screen anthology of famous historical scenes...
...apparently Rossellini is correct in charging that most of the scenes explaining this conversion lie on the floor of the RKO cutting room. Certainly as it stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth...