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argued it would lead to un- miracles, follice and oddities. employment, "A worse menace Keeping to the same recipe, than radio,” said in spokesman. here is a specimen collec- tion:
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958.
How Long Now Before The Age
Of The Feelies'?
NHE Brave New
THE
World of the cinema, prophesied with gloomy foreboding by Aldous Huxley in 1932,
already here.
is
that
With
ALREADY THE CINEMA HAS GIVEN BIRTH
TO TREMENDOUS TECHNIQUES—AND STILL
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS GOES ON.
Techni-
scren-
Sight came
Sound, were filled with their cries of miracle, Vista-Vision, played on a gramophone record "shool," "cut" and "rolt 'em." rema, anamorphic tenres, gerèen Alm to synchronise, hopefully, with the nellon. In one step The Jazz to
Singer put the volceloss star on perrion.
Technically the Alm "feels" and ""ancils," the that alretches from corner corner of the proscenium arch, Found The film with booming and colour that Ilves-all these things are either here already or planned for tomorrow by an Industry repelling the Invasion [of Television, “
NEW RACE
new
the
curvature, imagnetic Petrified by six years of
These war phonic sound
Are the and threatened with the baltic eries which the lahustry phenomenon of televiston, has thought up
the to meet viremu produced the wide needs of ecmpetitive entertain- ALTE1 to bolster up the box- ment office. The Monroe - Mansfeld school. huge in dimensions,
With Sound came Colour, le terrifying In Da Immedincy, was In the beginning there was thow Hedy Lamarr, wrapped in thrown into the stalls, Sight. Tremulous, quivering a sarok. leaning against
REVOLUTION
All the ingenuity of the
lock and while, pervously legendary palm trees. Suddenly Today, the cinema has given laboratory, all the Inventive- revealing Theda Bara in ostrich the world was thrown open to a birth to new techniques and a resa of the technician, plus the feathers, spread over a leopard new raco-cameramen and their new language. CinemaScope, vas; financial resources of the skin.
directors. The great outdoors Cinerama, Toda-AO. Clie- Alm companies havo been com-
camera angles on an industry
that has seen more drama, glamour and glitter than any one film could ever hold.......
RESEARCH BY JOHN CASTLE
Was CT-
of
instead.
bined to bring about a revolu- tion which in a few years bas turned last year's pictures into museum pleces, and the museum pieces into historical relles,
Once David Wark GrimIN and a cameraman--just the two of them-made a complete ple- ture. Today it takes 100 Irainca people to do the same thing. and the result may cort a million or more pounds.
The cinema, once the hand- malden of the box camern,
Jack Cardiff,
cameraman, behind the
Britain's 100
Technirama camera,
has grown into a big, sophistin 1939 that's 20 million-go to the artist's palette. If you're cated girl with characteristically the mavies today," he says, "and making a picture set at sea it feminine qualities of being, both the cinema habits of the would be an advantage to anell seductive and entertaining. younger generalior: hove glamorous. anki at certain changed."
COMPULSION
not the brine, i would have liked to
aim the
use such a technique for Western Appicaches. Bul obviously it has great milations.
says.
Wind, made £12 million at the appointed times, revealing. box office.
But the story has only just three years begun. I was nearly
"Then I would like to see i before they began "shool- hug" the Alin. Frist to be signed Technically, with the help
What has changed is the idea screen which goes beyond the prosecnium arch, beyond the 1 part was Margaret of electronic impulses and odour behind the cinema, from one orange of the human eye," be Tallichet. After waiting two Jets, cinoma cudiances can be showing to onu of compitiaton. years she bought up her con- Lrought both the
of seeing dust of the Tascad trant, married William Wyler prairie and the searing heat of audience is now made to feel
"Ultimately, I think we will an inferno. Pictures can be made its unpact, to be dragged into be matting films for wide-moreen London Express Service
to both "feel" " and "smell," but
slut television, That is, we will It is unlikely that, they ever will, the set along with the actors. be doing two kinds of works for "A shunt, a gimmick that cannot
Producers today throw their both the cinema and television. pictures into the audience, rattle Just" is the general opinion.
"Ru directing pictures has Shc cinemagoer with gunfire, become a tough job. It is 30 The Industry has other plans bombard him with colour, bring expensive nowadays
that the capture his man up its sleeve. In the glant und behind him,
in etrage must know kboratories of 20th Coutury eyesight with panoramie effects, exactly what he is doing. There Fox, engineers have been work and always
whai rive for
is no room for exporiment. To "audience make trade ing on a new process
calls Called the
a picture today la to Eldophor, whose chief claim is participation."
perform a miracle. The producer that it does away with Alm and
must be a poker player, the projection cameras altogether.
"A look of pain shoots singers. Jeanette MacDonald for across the elephant's face and Nelson Eddy. On the cask Iull-lengu feature
was a script writer's instruc- bearing her remains was The Squaw Man. Made to is the film. It's Spring groved her own signature. for £3,000, it caret £50,000. Again, Another instraction read: Dirvelor: Cecil B. de Mille.
"A light of determination is in John Gilbert, put out of
to Cecil de Me also her eyes." Problem: How
talkies because of a squeak the greate facial expressions on an his voice, continued to 0 contributed
of them all. The dead-pan elephant. The question £2,000 a week as a victim gion!
Whe solved by spraying the sound movies, until his contract Ten Commandments. Scoreboard: 63 actors, animal with glycerine and hold- expired. 488 speaking parts, 100 in a bright chromium ball in dancers, 7 noster sets, front of its face. 930,000 feet of timber, 11.200 pounds of nails, 1,540 tons of plaster, Blary out of business Hitchcock 4.700 gallons of paint. was The Jazz Singer.
2.400 tons of soll with Al Jolson. In fact, it dyed). Cost: 14,580,000, ur was only partly sound.
1,000.000 dollars per Command. ment, in Jour and a half months, ten million Americans saw it,
Nobody
in sound,
The film that
sound
inte
put ulg
business and voiceless
Alfred
THE first complete talkie waa Warner's The Terror -- after Edgar Wallace-tnade in Octa- ber 1928.
The Arst British talking
"Oscar,"
Marilyn Miller, who died in 1936, was given a cons the annual award tract
The for two musicals. 'given by the Academy of terms: £40,000 a ́pleture. Motion Picture Aris and Sciences, was named by its executive secretary, Mrs Mar- Raret Herrick.
my sad. The
reminda me o! Uncle Oscar," she name stuck.
10
IN 1939 Hollywood oglumilats were asking the question, "AY musicals doomed?" Their verdio": "Yes."
When Clark Gable cele- brated his birthday on set, the fim unit gave him a cake. Incribed on it: "To the world's greatest actor-Robert "Taylor.""
Я The golden statues are On meeting Sir Winston Churchill. C., was quoted Ineken high. weigh seven as saying: "I'd rather
pounds, have a bronze shake hands with you,
interior and gold plate Sir Winston, than with
exterior. Each award any other Hving being."
costs £35, The first Churchill replied:
In
was given in 1929. that case, pray shake hands again."
picture was Alfred Hitch- cock's - Blackmail
1920. f Just to play safe, he made a allent version too.
★Walt Disney has won more of them than any other man. His collection totals 24. Two carlow charactera have collected between them since
in 1828, talking pictures Were announced at the Riallo in London, and the The Robe, the first New Oxford, Manchester. CinemasScope pro- Ellects advertised included duction. netted ihr Jeanetle
songs. ballie sounds, buying highest
receipts MacDonald hours and the avar of a for the first week of o mighty river,"
new film. At the Roxy Theatre, 1843.
Yolk, I brought in Their names-Tom and Jerry. system New
£823,000 In even days.
First British sound gave a demonstration at the
Plecadilly in December, 1928. Films included A Fascinating Vamp, Zulb Love and A Snow man's Romance.
Frist all - sound studio was built by Fox Movietone at Hollywood. Cost: £2,000,000.
Cammenge
LITTLE
ROCK
LINCOLN
KROA
#29 on
No turtle more than 95 years old may work on a
The mun who hay' appeared in muro ms picture, according to the Ameri than any other actor is Ameri- cun Samuel Hinds, His score 159 pletures. His British counter- part was Sir C. Aubrey Smith, with a total of 82,
"But how can I. Foster ? E was INVITED to the
Lebanon-but to Faubus I'm just a damn Yankee
Artist. aniraals melude
en Guild of Animal Wagle wages for dumb kid down by the Guild
£17 a week for one appearance, twice that much if the "octor" is asked to bark, miaow. mou, neigh or chirp. The Guild Insists on fortnighly holidays for its members.
A member of Parliament, fearing Americanisation of the Engilsh Innguage through the flood of American talking pictures, asked The Board of Trade to limit them coming into the country. The plea falled. Shuckal
with
The first British film sequences of dialogue was Klity, à 1930 production sterting John Stuart and Estelle Brody,
most Two of the cinema's hardy character-tic cow- boy and Tarzan, First Western was The Virginian: The here: Cary Cooper, with Walter Huston as the bad man.
So far, Tarzan has grunted and swung through
31
plelures, worn out eleven he- mett. The first, and only, pro- fessional actor was Almo Lincoln
in 1010. The most famous, swimmer Johnny Welsmuller, collected 30 sprint tiles, includ ing Olympic moäole in 1924 and 1920.
Tarzen
alorias have been translated into 57. languages. | Moral: Ugh's the same the whole
world over,
First
two-reek cartoon,
made in 1937, had a two- reel title: Popera the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor.
1937
Call
When Jean Harlow, the
Blande Bombshell, died “Ân they, sang Todlan, Love Ather uniral. The
False *
by eyelids used Akim Tamiros in -The General Died at Dawn, were a litio led and preserved in cardboard box in Paramount's prep-room,
The greatest money-spinner of them all, Gone With The
İPOCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Trust Barchester to foll for the trapeze líne !
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MASS HYPNOSIS→
TO DEMONSTRATE
MANDRAKE --ATA
| CHARITY, SHOW--
JOHNNY HAZARD
THE CLOVERS ARE PLAYING A SAY-NIGHT DOUBLE HEADER TOPAYA
GULLET O'HARA IS PITCHING THE SECOND GAMEJ GET TO THE BALL PARK ANI NOSE AROUND. FIND HIS WEAKNE95.
FERD’NAND
YOU PROBABLY WONDER HON
THIS LADY CAN
HANS IN
MID-AIR-
Where will end? Can
we director must be an expert.
Based on a Swiss invention. It is expect, in the next 10 years, to
best describe as large-screen take our psychiatrists into television, in colour and H-FL Couch-led planetarium
的
"The cinema is the biggest says
and paradox of our Lima,"
allow ourselves to be enveloped Cardiff. "It has so much good- Research has already reached in sound, sight and colour pro- nes to offer, and such power The "commercial paint." Reports Jected on to a domed ceiling? are enthusiastic, und executives
In Dritain expect to demonstrate
their latest brainchild in a year
For two.
ADVANTAGE
Jack Cardiff, Brilzin's tap
new
that it could create religion or implant a certain code of conduct if i wished. Yet It alro possesses a great deal of evil.
The terrible danger is that
"Live variety shows on a big cameraman and the photo with all the advances in the SCI HI-FI, colour and grapher of Westem Approaches, technical field, the scripts are comfort." That is the future of African Queen, War and Peace not keeping pace. If we are golog tho chiema
to be able to draw audiences into as Mr J. F. and Red Shoes, is not Faitinson, managing director of frightened of "meliles" and the action we portray, we must 20th Century secs It.
"Exactly the same number of
Fox in Britain, "feelies" DS
colleagues.
his
executive ensure
that what we show is good and worthwhile."
in,
"I think they must come
people who went to the cinema just to add two more couro MARK'CHRISTIE
--WHEN IT'S
NOT A LADY
|ATALL-BOTA,
BALLOON!
By Leo Falk and Phil Davis
|--AND IN THE AUDIENCE --
NOW--
THE BOSS WANTS TO
POAL AROUND PATH THIS
BUY?
I KNOW, CORKY-AND I'M BEGINNING TO GET
THAT "FEELINGʻAGAINU,
MY STOMACH TELLS
|| CONTINUED
By Frank Robbins
OH NO! Me I WON'T LAST UNFL), ARIZONA GAME TIME LESS L
YET FI GET ME A BONE OF ́NAVAJO JOE'S HOT OWL IN TUCSON!
SHEAFFER'S “SNORKEL"
AUSTIN
for
THE SPORTSMAN
ANOTHER WIH FOR THE CLOVERS, AT THE AFTERNOON GAME 170 passen
GET SOME REST, BULLET... YOU'RE PITCHIN' TONIGHTË..
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