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ARCH OBOLER |
1909-1987; radio drama pioneer, 3D cinema pioneer in 1950s |
| 1 People just won’t endure flat pictures once they have seen living, breathing,
rounded Natural Vision on their cinema screens. |
• 1952 on release of Bwana Devil |
| 2 Within a decade all movies will be in three dimensions, supplanting the
absurdity of 2D movies in a 3D world as the electric light supplanted the gaslight. |
• c.1970 |
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JOSEPH O'CONNOR |
1963- ; Irish writer |
| Any novel that can't be sung as a three-minute ballad is probably no good. |
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Sir/Lord LAURENCE OLIVIER |
1907-1988; British actor, film director, theatre manager |
| [The impression exists] that there is
not really sufficient money made by the industry to sustain it and that we are in a feeble
position of whining for charity which can only be wasted on a lost cause. British films
pay; they pay very well. But they pay the wrong people. |
• at Film Industry Employees’ Council, January 1951 |
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KEN OLSEN |
1926- ; President, Digital Equipment Corporation |
| There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. |
• 1977 |
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J ROBERT OPPENHEIMER |
1904-1967; US nuclear physicist |
| When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it and you argue about
what do to about it only after you have had your technical success. |
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CRESWELL O'REILLY |
Walter Creswell O'Reilly
Australian Chief Censor 1929-1942 |
| Moral standards of all films have not improved and therefore there is no grounds for hope that in the near future
we will attain the goal of the abolition of all forms of censorship. |
• Censor's Annual Report 1931 |
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GEORGE ORWELL |
Eric Arthur Blair
1903-1950; English novelist and essayist |
| The result may be a flood of cheap reprints that will cripple the lending
libraries and check the output of new novels. This would be a fine thing for
literature, but it would be a very bad thing for trade, and when you have to
choose between art and money—well, finish it for yourself. |
• On the launch of Penguin paperback books,
 August 1935 |
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MICHAEL OVITZ |
1946- ; President, Walt Disney Company |
| The new media age lowers barriers to entry. It unleashes vast energy but also potentially
undermines standards of reliability, accountability, trust and accuracy. |
• 1998? |
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