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March 1, 1:51 a.m.--A Harvard employee reported that $625 worth of camera equipment was stolen from room 1420 of William James Hall. Among the items stolen were a Konica 35mm autoreflex camera, a 50mm lens and a Vivitar automating 252 flash...
HITCHCOCK: First of all, we have to explain the perspective of various lenses. In other words, when you look through the finder of a 50mm lens --a two-inch lens -- you see the perspective as roughly normal, as the eye sees it. Now the moment you go to a 35mm lens, the perspective begins to change, to elongate. Then you go to a 28mm. In other words, the wider the angle of lens, the more forced the perspective becomes...
...interiors of rooms where the ceiling seemed to go up, especially if you're familiar with the room. It was on this basis that I'd gotten them to devise this movement. It's a changing of perspective from the normal to the abnormal -- from the normal of a 50mm lens to the abnormal of the 22mm...
...moving deadly silent on huge rubber tires, rolled a mechanized cavalcade of the U. S. Regulars and the erstwhile National Guard: 100 heavy anti-aircraft guns, fresh from the plant; anti-tank guns; mounted searchlights, range-finding batteries, 4-inch sky-rifles neatly folded in their olive-green carriages; 50mm. machine guns...
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