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...name, "Artkino" prefixed to a picture too often has portended a succession of monolithic protagonists, striking heroic stances and delivering themselves of Messages. "The Stone Flower," though, is a straight-out, uncomplicated fantasy about a young artisan who, comprehending that stone has a soul, seeks to create in this medium a flower more alive than the ephemeral real thing. The plot traces his wanderings in a fairy kingdom, and the effects of his dream on his everyday life. The wildly beautiful technicolor ("filmed," the program confides, "by a secret process") breathes a sort of glory into the most mundane developments...
...Donnelley & Sons Co., TIME Inc.'s Chicago printers, wanted to know if it would be possible to "set ink on paper by molecular vibration through a sound medium...
Just once in a while there arrives a motion picture that forces one to admit that Twentieth-Century society has developed a magnificent artistic medium, worthy of comparison to Elizabethan drama or Russian fiction of the last century. Perhaps symbolically for our age, its finest examples are not attributable to one man, author, script-writer, producer, director, or the actors. If any of these fail, the movie cannot be first-rate, and that is very likely the most important reason why the percentage of excellent films is so small. "Great Expectations" is a great picture. No one factor made...
...British manufacturers can concentrate on a few medium-horsepower models that will sell at home, compete better with U.S. cars abroad. For example the Nuffield organization (Morris Motors, Ltd.), now producing 24 models, will reduce to twelve. But carmakers will probably need two years to retool for the new models. The new tax will help U.S. automakers also. Eventually, when they are able to export freely again to Britain, they will be in a much-better position to compete for the British home market...
Chevigny expects to be "a going concern" as a radio writer "at least until television takes over." His skill is backed by a cold nose for the main chance: he sold NBC on his Plays by Ear, partly by the shrewd hint that a blind writer for an invisible medium makes not only good sense but also good publicity copy...