Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from radio, movie and printed journalism (and owes a huge debt to THE MARCH OF TIME, which made the mold for film journalism), is the most realistic reporting yet devised for documentary film. Unlike any documentary before it, See It Now sends its cameras after a story without any script, shoots everything with sound, never dubs afterwards, never rehearses an interview, shoots as much as 20 hours of film for one hour of the final product-a ratio greater than any other TV show, newsreel or Hollywood itself. The method is costly in effort and money-$100,000 a show...
...pique caused Lewis' brains to be rearranged with pistol butts and his voice box to be sliced very fine indeed. After that, hardly able to talk. Lewis took a dive into the nearest bottle and pulled the cork in behind him-or so the script says...
...supposed to be. As Eve White, she looks something like a rose that has been pressed too long in the family Bible. As Eve Black, she shakes it around with considerable virtuosity. And as Jane, she breathes a calm, midsummer warmth of maturity. But time and again, the script forces her to change character so often and so quickly that her meatiest moments sometimes look like rather thinly sliced...
Though the skilled directorial hand of John Frankenheimer showed through cleanly in the crowd scenes, Manolete was largely an attenuated and unlyrical hymn to the man. Only Actor Nehemiah Persoff as the manager brought emotional content to a bloodless script: "We kept asking for more and more and more," says Persoff after Manolete has been gored for the last time. "And more was his life...
...open its tenth TV season, CBS's Studio One last week tackled the difficult chore of re-enacting the event from an uneven script called The Night America Trembled. There were some arresting scenes in the broadcasting studio, where the original sound man was back at his old Mars machines, but in trying to chronicle the reaction of different types of people in different situations, Night was forced to juggle more vignettes than it could handle, rarely managed to recapture the ensuing hysteria. Bogeyman Welles, who earned himself a national sponsor for his imagination, failed even...