A number of techniques developed since the 1950s, however, have placed the study of these subjects on a sounder and more objective footing.

The introduction of new screen formats was put off for a quarter century, and color, though utilized over the next two decades for special productions, also did not become a norm until the 1950s.

Somewhere in Hong Kong, in the late fifties, a young waitress found herself pregnant by a cook, probably a co­worker at her restaurant.