Word: asa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principle behind the process has been known for decades. The biggest problem that held the system in the labs was the film's slow reaction to light. Polaroid's scientists, however, found a way to speed it up to an acceptable ASA (American Standards Association) rating of 40, adequate for moviemaking outdoors by daylight or indoors with a small floodlight. Land wants to market Polavision with sound, and the film shown at last week's meeting had an unused magnetic sound track, but Land is not satisfied with the quality...
...trying to develop an instant-movie system. Instead, it is concentrating on other goals, including trying to eliminate the flashbulb in still photography by making a whole new series of amateur cameras to use high-speed film. In March Kodak introduced a fast color film with an ASA rating of 400, but so far it can be used only in complex cameras, not most of Kodak's Instamatics...
Crimson coach Joe Restic will be honored by the Touchdown Club of New York at their luncheon this Wednesday. Columbia's Doug Jackson will receive the Asa S. Bushnell Cup at the same luncheon...
After 20 minutes of cutting and brightening the speech, Kissinger opened his briefcase and took out three folders. When Kissinger came to a document marked TOP SECRET SENSITIVE EXCLUSIVELY EYES ONLY CONTAINS CODEWORD, Rossi clicked away at 1/30 sec., f/5.6 with TriX rated 1200 ASA in his 35-mm. Canon equipped with 600-mm. lens. What the camera recorded was a report on diplomatic relations between Paris and Hanoi based on information from "an established CIA source with excellent access" in the French Foreign Ministry. According to the CIA source, the French felt "deceived by Hanoi's assurances that...
...Asa S. Bushnell (Princeton, '21), former director of the U.S. Olympic Committee. They mourn The decline of the eating clubs, the admission of women students, the opening of campus activities to local residents. Says Jones...