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This week he dwarfed his first performance with a full-length novel, Native Son. Laid in Chicago, only a Negro could have written it; but until now no Negro has possessed either the talent or the daring to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Nigger | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Pinocchio (Disney-RKO) is the world's third full-length cartoon movie.* It is Disney's second, and in every respect except its score his best. In craftsmanship and delicacy of drawing and coloring, in the articulation of its dozens of characters, in the greater variety and depth of its photographic effects, it tops the high standard Snow White set. The charm, humor and loving care with which it treats its inanimate characters puts it in a class by itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...modernize Liebig's process, and he had finally succeeded. Before he left his one-story Colonial laboratory on Philadelphia's Main Line his process was in use in three big mirror plants (Nurre; Binswanger & Co.; Hires Turner), and he had visions of some day putting a full-length mirror on every bedroom door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Done with Mirrors | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...MYSTERY BOOK-Anthony Abbot, Leslie Ford, David Frome, Mary Roberts Rinehart & Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Four novelettes, one full-length novel-all good-by five crack mystery mongers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in December | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Gulliver's Travels (Paramount). First and best full-length color cartoon was Walt Disney's Snow White. For a while it looked as if it would be the last unless No. 1 Movie Cartoonist Disney made another. But No. 2 Movie Cartoonist Max Fleischer had his own ideas about that. Eighteen months ago, he decided to challenge Snow White by making a full-length cartoon of his own, Gulliver's Travels. According to the publicity from Miami, he had 678 artists at his Florida studio, who turned out 665,280 drawings, used up 16 tons of paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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