{"title":"The Limitations of Television","authors":"R. Bretz","doi":"10.2307/1209660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209660","url":null,"abstract":"RUDY BRETZ, TV pioneer, entered the television field eleven years ago when CBS formed its original staff. Cameraman, director, and inventor, he later became production manager of station WPIX. He is at present preparing one of the first definitive books on television production facilities and techniques. His article, \"Television as an Art Form,\" appeared in Volume V, Number 2, of the Hollywood Quarterly.","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1951-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128229852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"God, Radio, and the Movies","authors":"F. Elkin","doi":"10.2307/1209439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209439","url":null,"abstract":"IN AUGUST, 1948, Cosmopolitan magazine published \"The Next Voice You Hear,\" a short story by George Sumner Albee, which, said the editor, \"we believe, sincerely, will be the most discussed short story of the year.\" The story never received this predicted acclaim, but Dore Schary, production executive at MGM, saw in it a powerful spiritual idea which, considering the troubled conditions of the present-day world, should have a deep appeal for the general public. Schary himself wrote a screenplay treatment and then produced a movie of intense religious and spiritual power. The picture, also entitled The Next Voice You Hear, and first released in New York's Radio City Music Hall theater, is not one that \"just entertains,\" not one that is forgotten immediately upon leaving the theater. Few who see the picture can remain unaffected by it. Some have been sharply annoyed by the treatment of God and religion, and in England the picture was temporarily banned. But there are tens of thousands who are acclaiming the film as one of the greatest achievements of Hollywood. Many in the audience have felt pangs of conscience and wept; others have been inspired to support their churches with a new vigor; still others, with a somewhat more objective outlook, have suggested that Hollywood has atoned for some of its sins. It behooves us, therefore, to analyze the picture, to indicate what it suggests about God, religion, and the American way of life, and to discuss why it should have been produced. The basic story is as follows: A Voice is heard over the radio one evening which says, \"This is God. I will be with you the next few","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125851733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The FCA and the Film Council Movement","authors":"Glen Burch","doi":"10.2307/1209444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209444","url":null,"abstract":"IN JANUARY, 1946, a group of men and women met in Washington to dissolve an organization which had just completed an important wartime task. The organization was the National 16-mm. Advisory Committee, called into existence three years before to assist the United States Treasury Department and the Office of War Information in distributing informational films in support of the war effort. Its members were representatives of seven national organizations concerned in one way or another with the distribution or production of 16-mm. films and equipment. These were the American Library Association, the National Education Association's Department of Audio-visual Instruction, the Educational Film Library Association, the National University Extension Association, the Allied Nontheatrical Film Association, the National Association of Visual Education Dealers (now the National Audio Visual Association), and the Visual Equipment Manufacturers' Council.1","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130845301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TV as an Art Form","authors":"R. Bretz","doi":"10.2307/1209446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209446","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121900826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Selected Bibliography on Music for Motion Pictures","authors":"J. Zuckerman","doi":"10.2307/1209451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209451","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133831156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Television and the Future of Motion Picture Exhibition","authors":"R. Luther","doi":"10.2307/1209447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209447","url":null,"abstract":"SPOKESMEN for United States motion picture exhibitors have been sounding recurrent alarms about decreased box office receipts ever since the peak business of 1946 failed to play a return engagement. With the passage of time, however, even impartial observers have expressed growing concern about the present and future status of the exhibition branch of the motion picture industry. Various members of the industry have cited admission tax data, attendance figures, box office receipts, audience studies, and other evidence to prove that theater gross receipts have declined from 15 to 40 per cent since 1946. Fortune magazine felt reasonably safe last year in predicting that the movies had reached the end of an era. This year, Abram Myers, chairman of the board of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors, reported that between 5 and 0o per cent of the nation's theaters had been forced out of business. Another measure of the seriousness of the situa-","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123790794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Furthering Motion Picture Appreciation by Radio","authors":"G. Pratley","doi":"10.2307/1209442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209442","url":null,"abstract":"GERALD PRATLEY has been with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since 1946 and at present is film reviewer for Canada's national radio system. His programs, broadcast weekly over the CBC's Trans-Canada and Dominion networks, are This Week at the Movies, The Movie Scene, Facts About Films, and Music From the Films. In addition to his work on films, he is director of both the Toronto Film Society and the Canadian Film Institute. He also contributes reviews to The Critic and Canadian Film News.","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132551318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exhortation to the Trade","authors":"E. Callenbach","doi":"10.2307/1209440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"113 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128915480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Swedish Feature Films and Swedish Society","authors":"J. Kolaja","doi":"10.2307/1209450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1209450","url":null,"abstract":"DR. JIRI KOLAJA was educated in Czechoslovakia at Charles University in Prague and at Masaryk University where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on \"Sociological and Psychological Problems of the Film.\" In his native country he worked with various film groups, especially with the short film production unit FAB in Zlin. Coming to the United States via Sweden, he was a graduate student in sociology and communication at the University of Chicago. At present he is teaching the history and theory of motion pictures at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology.","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129977366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing \"The Heiress\"","authors":"Harry N. Horner","doi":"10.1525/FQ.1950.5.1.04A00030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/FQ.1950.5.1.04A00030","url":null,"abstract":"HARRY HORNER, a graduate of Max Reinhardt's Theatrical Seminary in Vienna, came to America as a designer with Reinhardt fifteen years ago. He designed a dozen plays on Broadway, including Lady in the Dark and the Theater Guild's The World We Make. He also did set designs for the Metropolitan and San Francisco opera companies. He has designed and supervised the art work on such films as Our Town, Little Foxes, and A Double Life, and he recently won an Academy Award for his work on The Heiress. Currently Mr. Horner is making his debut as a director in the filming of The World Inside.","PeriodicalId":128945,"journal":{"name":"Hollywood Quarterly","volume":"54 53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1950-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123385074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}