Word: visualizations
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Comedienne Joan Davis, who does visual pratfalls on the screen and verbal ones on the radio, went back on the air last week with a new distinction. For the first time, she was her own boss-and under a million-dollar-a-year contract which makes her the highest-paid woman performer in radio...
...movies during the past five years to learn about such subjects as machine guns, camouflage, venereal disease. Why can't their younger brothers & sisters learn their ABCs the same way? In June, the State of Virginia passed a whopping $1,176,000 one-year appropriation for "visual education" in the public schools...
...past, many U.S. teachers have resisted "visual education." One difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...
Bouncy, buck-toothed little Dong Kingman, a California-born Chinese, has meandered over much of the U.S., recording in bright, breezy brush strokes the look of the land. In the course of his visual reporting he has whipped out about 50 pictures a year, and sold most of them at an average of $250 apiece...
...Beam That Sees. An electronic supergadget which "sees" as well in the dark as in the light, radar projects a radio beam which, on striking an object near or far, returns an echo that is translated into a visual image on the radar screen. Radar can see the flight of a shell, the wake of a ship, the explosion of a target, the fall of a hit plane. At sea, it can detect buoys, reefs and other ships more than 20 miles away...