Word: illusionment
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Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir) is one of the least kinetic and one of the most absorbing of cinema's innumerable treatments of the World War. Concerned not with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally...
Many war pictures have dwelt, for purposes of irony, on the small gallantries of modern armed conflict. Grand Illusion does the same thing, but for a different reason. This time the monstrous irony is war itself rather than the lie de Boeldieu tells to save his friends, the flower that...
No Freshman who stays around Cambridge awhile or who has heard tell of Harvard from some unfortunate vantage point like New Haven or Hanover can be ignorant of one symbol, one illusion, one catch-phrase commonly associated with New England and Harvard in particular.
When stereoscopic or three-dimensional motion pictures are shown, a missile flying in the projector's direction makes spectators dodge in their seats. Despite this powerful illusion, Hollywood has shown no enthusiasm for three-dimensional pictures. Some time ago it occurred to an inventive cinema cameraman named Joseph Valentine...
Lensman Valentine's invention has not been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This...