Word: ansco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Color Film. Hollywood finally got a full-length look at General Aniline & Film Corp.'s three-color process (Ansco Color) in the independent movie, Sixteen Fathoms Deep. As the color is incorporated in the negative, making it possible to record it with an ordinary black & white camera, General Aniline hopes that Ansco will eventually compete with Technicolor. In some Sixteen Fathoms scenes Ansco Color, like the new Rouxcolor of Paris' Roux brothers (TIME, June 7), seemed far more natural than the more expensive Technicolor. But in other scenes Ansco Color was washed out, and faces were often only...
Prod to Provoke. For a photographer, Karsh works fast; he usually needs no more than 20 minutes to get all the shots he wants. He uses a $100 Ansco camera, an 8 x 10 with a $265 lens and a long cable release. His trick is to walk around the room talking to his subjects till they are wheedled, or needled, into the expression he wants. Then he snaps the shot. When irascible Harold Ickes persisted in looking blandly benevolent, a reference to his pet hate of the moment, the Canol project prodded him into looking natural...
...frozen, they were barred from company premises and forbidden to communicate with their ex-employes. The five: Rudolph Hutz, $80,000-a-year vice president & director;Vice Presidents Hans Aickelin and William vom Rath; F. W. von Meister, manager of the Ozalid division; Leopold Eckler, acting manager of Agfa Ansco. Four worked at one time for I. G. Farben (German Dye Trust); all personified, said Treasury men, Aniline's German origins and ambiguous control...
They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
...kept going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity. Nor were last week's firings likely to be the last...