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Alfred Hitchcock once said that it would be an interesting experiment to make a Keystone Cop sequence--the regular stuff, with the cops running around batting one another and everyone else on the head; and then suddenly, without any warning, to shift the mood--have one of the cops thrown out on the street, blood pouring from his face, his body writhing in agony. Hitchcock was interested in seeing what the audience's reaction would be. Though Preston Sturges undoubtedly had different motives, it is precisely this sort of thing that he does in "Sullivan's Travels." If at times...
...them proceed out together on Sullivan's travels. At first it is pure comedy, and excellent comedy at that. But then, in a long, silent sequence, Mr. Sturges inserts a serious documentary account of the hobo's life. This in itself is beautifully done, but the sudden shift leaves the audience wondering for a short time just what is going on. Then comes more comedy, until again there is a sudden change of scene and mood, and the action is in a chain-gang prison camp, thoroughly brutal and realistic, without the slightest trace of comedy. Then back...
...morning of May 10, 1940, the scrubbed, immaculate city of Bandung, on a Java plateau, seemed unwarily peaceful. Halfway around the world, before dawn in Europe, the Army of the motherland was reeling from the first sudden assault of the German. But that morning in the white-stoned General Headquarters build ing of The Netherlands East Indies in Bandung -there was a cooling breeze, and negligent ease...
...such a quake hits them again, it will certainly upset the Mikado's apple cart," Landsberg said. "Most of the dwellings in Tokyo and Yokohoma are flimsy, wooden things. It would take months of concentrated bombing to equal that damage inflicted by a sudden release of the tremendous energy stored in the bowels of the earth...
...under the obviously unqualified leadership of the Fogg? Are we to believe that they will trim their long hari, shelve their academicism and adopt the necessary experimental attitude? The exact bearing of the "color-value theory" on camouflage is almost as obscure as the motives behind the Fogg's sudden announcement. It is imperative that such a vital and, prior to Pearl Harbor; such a widely disparaged subject be put under competent direction if it is to make any contribution either to the students or to the science of camouflage. It is about time that the pall which...