Word: realism
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Second prize has ben given to Julian 10. Agoos '40, whose picture of "Column," a young boy, is notable for its clarity and realism. "Boulder Dam," showing the white concrete contrasted with the rugged mountains in the background, has won third prize for John B. Breed...
...Plains, in 1937 The River, in 1940 The Fight for Life. All three were directed by Pare Lorentz. The first dealt with the dust bowl, the second with flood control, the third probed childbirth mortality in U. S. slums. Even captious critics granted that its 69 minutes of clinical realism established Pare Lorentz as No. 1 U. S. director of documentary films...
...sweatshop fire. Another daughter married a gay blade who carried on with other women. The only son was killed making the world safe for democracy. The kindly boarder (Joseph Buloff) followed Mama around for three acts and 20 years, finally won her elderly hand as the curtain fell. For realism, there was yet another daughter, mean and ornery as they come. For atmosphere, there was an endless amount of Jewish cooking. For laughs, there was a loud but likable radical...
Another standard of taste evident in the modern concert program is a love for music with pictorial effects and instrumental coloring, music with a story in it. This preference, a by-product of the modern fetish of realism, is responsible for the continued popularity of tone-poems and ballet-music. A lusty theme for the hero, a gentle little melody for his lady-love, a spinning theme and perhaps a brook motif: these seem irresistible to American audiences...
...realism and fantasy seldom mix even in the Amazon jungle. Result: the plight of the miniature actors, dodging for their lives behind a huge can of pork & beans, peering up at a towering rooster or laboriously sawing themselves slices of gargantuan boloney, is less frightening than funny...