Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...your cinema critic perhaps a bit severe in calling Dimitri Tiomkin "probably the world's loudest composer" and stating that his music for the documentary film, Rhapsody of Steel, "bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer" [Feb. 1]? Actually, the music for Rhapsody of Steel covers a wide dynamic range, with a substantial proportion of subdued effects...
...Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer squints down into the refracted psyche of a young man who craves other young men, uses his mother and beautiful cousin as bait (TIME, Jan.11). Last week a House subcommittee studying pornography and obscenity in U.S. films wanted to know how the film version of Summer had slipped past the Hollywood Production Code. "You can read homosexuality into it," testified Motion Picture Association President Eric Johnston, "or you can read incest, if you wish, if your mind goes along those channels. But I don't think there is anything like that...
Home Talkies. The first sound camera for home movies was announced by Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. The 8-mm. 4½-lb. camera is equipped with microphone and takes a special Ansco film with a magnetic stripe to synchronize sound with picture. Sound can also be dubbed in on silent movies by adding a sound stripe and running both through projector. Price: $239.50 for camera, $7.50 for 100 ft. of film and $249.50 for projector...
...film starts to roll, nine shiny black Mercedes limousines roll into sight in sober single file. Whose funeral? Germany's? They roll up to an elegant hotel. Nine doors fly open, and out step nine millionaires in nine black Homburg hats. After a long day in the board room, the directors of the Insulating Materials Cartel-a cover name for a munitions trust-hurry off in sober single file to spend a long night in the bedroom...
Kuby and Thiele have chosen, with a shrewd eye for the ironic contrast, to present their moral horror story as a bubbly champagne farce. For at least two-thirds of the film, the thick-necked Schlotbarone bounce about hilariously, like a chorus line of caricature capitalists. In fact, the weakness of the picture as social satire is that too often it tickles where it ought to jab. Only in the last reel does the customer stop giggling, as in the bottom of the champagne glass he suddenly sees something hard to swallow. The moviemakers make him swallow it anyway. Oddly...