Word: visualization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about five years ago by New Zealand-born Len Lye, show how musical sensation may be transferred to visual images...
...canali do not show up clearly in photographs, because the photographic image of the planet is so small that a time exposure is necessary, and the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere then blurs the detail. The streaks show up better to visual observation, but observers disagree on what they...
...these three aerial barriers. Below on the action grid, intelligence officers in earphones sat like croupiers raking little planes back & forth across squares ruled on the map, following the progress of air battles. This efficient control system was the centre of a complicated network of telephones, teletypewriters and visual signals which with extraordinary speed coordinated airfields all over Britain. In from observer posts on the coasts to various control centres, then to this GHQ grid, from there to fighter stations' operating rooms, and finally to planes in the air flowed a steady stream of instructions...
...been formal and stiff; he was at his best when he pushed aside the microphone and talked with an unforced intimacy to the living people he could see before him. Now he was not facing a group of supporters who could be moved merely with the contagion of his visual confidence. The U. S. itself was listening; he was facing the President on the ground Franklin Roosevelt liked best-before the microphone in a time of crisis...
...Other items: Oscar the Obscene Octopus, a rubber monstrosity in Twenty Thousand Legs Under the Sea (formerly Salvador Dali's Dream of Venus}; bigger & better fireworks (free) which depict sinking submarines and battleships, other current news subjects; Battle of Emotions, a spectacle wherein dancing girls test their visual impact on male subjects, whose emotions are scored on electrical lie-detectors (25?); Dancing Campus (all the dancing to name bands that the customers want for 25? apiece); The Op'ry House (beer and mellowdrammer...