Word: film
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Signal Corps crew of 25 men, including five professional civilian actors, have spent nearly a month cavorting about Cornell in order to give the film some "real college flavor." The movie will be shown to high school students and Boy Scouts next year...
...states: ". . . the film will probably stress the College as 'an adult world, free of coercion' . . ."; and: " . . . the ollege in its true prospective, without any propagandizing." I don't know what the movie is going to show, but the first statement refutes the second and is, in itself, an untruth. It is both propagandizing and untrue to say that the College is: "an adult world, free of coercion...
While H. Rider Haggard's story of a woman looking for her husband and his lost diamond mine is not outstanding, the African landscape and its macabre inhabitants have turned a pedestrian adventure plot into a fast moving film. Fortunately, the producers seem to be aware of the plot's shortcomings, and it is safe to say that there are more animals present than words of dialogue...
Supported by $54,000 from the League of New York Theaters, the campaign will run through 1951, Broadway's bicentennial year.* Among the "educational" efforts planned: a documentary film, a television show, a national essay contest, a traveling exhibition of theatrical Americana. Slogan of the campaign: "The play's the thing...
...Pacific war may be anachronistically edified, if somewhat surprised, to hear American Guerrilla's naval officers speaking of General Douglas MacArthur with something close to veneration. They also may be heartened to learn that the Leyte landings were as simple as a walk-on. In the film's climax, the rumble of distant naval guns disperses a Japanese patrol that is closing in on the guerrillas. "MacArthur?" asks Micheline. "He said he'd return," replies Tyrone. Moments later, led by G.I. columns stepping briskly to a Sousa march, the jeep-borne general himself (played by Robert Barrat...