Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Partly the difference lies in a freshness and informality. Partly it lies in a brash approach that encourages visual puns (e.g., after a harmonica quartet, Garroway is shown eating his way through an ear of corn...
Though most of it seems to have been done before, the picture keeps its lines fairly bright and its slapstick (e.g., Cummings caught in a runaway sailboat) deftly timed. The best sequence is a fresh bit of visual comedy: Cummings and a process server stray unwittingly into a quick-change vaudeville act, and are thrust in & out of a series of ridiculous costumes...
About a year ago, Builder Sam Berger set out to change the face of Scarsdale. Berger was modern. His new houses were colonial ranch types and they looked fine, but they also looked just alike. On Scarsdale's matrons, driving by, they produced the effect of a visual stutter...
...continuous middle-distance vision. "About the only time we have used our eyes for distances of four to ten feet has been in the act of walking," said Neill. "But this is done by frequently repeated glances at the ground, and does not require the continuous, eye-level visual attention...
...issued after 19 more years of talking pictures, City Lights is more impressive than ever.* It is immensely funny, at times touching, and its storytelling is so eloquently visual that it makes most sound movies seem like the stunted products of a half-forgotten...