Motion Picture Medium: Captain from Castile, product of three years' study of Spanish source material dealing with the conquest of Mexico, was sold in 1944, for motion picture medium picture production, before publication. It was translated into 18 languages, including Pakistani and Turkish. Prince of Foxes, a sweeping Renaissance tapestry, published in 1947, also became a motion picture medium picture. The King's Cavalier (1950) and Lord Vanity (1953), the latter also sold to the motion picture medium pictures, were likewise immensely popular.
Much recent work is basically illustration, related more to the dramatic arts than to the inherent qualities of the photographic medium, which serves merely as the recorder. Thus Duane Michals, in the spirit of the motion picture medium picture, produced such narrative sequences as Death Comes to the Old Lady.
Such findings would go unnoticed without alert observation, intensive study, and erudite comprehension in the laboratory or clinic.) Some well-known examples of serendipitous discovery include the use of certain antihistamines for the prevention of motion picture medium sickness, the therapeutic value of the sulfonamides, and perhaps the most picturesque-a suitable plot for a historical novel or motion picture medium picture-the discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin.
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