Word: screening
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...offered last week by Dr. John C. Neill of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania State College of Optometry. Reporting .on a year-long study of TV's effect on the eyes, Dr. Neill concluded that the human eye becomes so light-adapted in the glare of the television screen that it suffers up to a 40% loss in night vision...
...adjust to the middle-distance demands of television, he recommended a seating arrangement which puts the audience at a distance about eight times the height of the screen (4 ft. for a 7-in. screen; 6 ft. for 10 in.; 8 ft. for 12 in.). At such ranges, adults' eyes would feel a lot better, and television might even be used as an excellent supplementary method of treating squint or crossed eyes in children. By covering the healthy eye, a youngster's "lazy" eye can be painlessly strengthened while it is focused happily for an hour or more...
...Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). Burt Lancaster in Rope of Sand...
...ultrasonic-much too high-pitched (up to 120,000 cycles per second) for human ears to hear. So Dr. Griffin rigged a special microphone and hitched it to a cathoderay oscillograph. Each inaudible peep from a defrosted bat made a measurable pattern of light on the oscillograph screen...
Critics called him "snoop" and "transom-peeper." One starlet angrily described his visit as a "personal affront." Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, righteously insisted that "Hollywood is pretty much a goes-to-bed-with-the-chickens town." The press joined in with a delighted chorus of catcalls...