Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...camera. A built-in scene recorder would eliminate the slovenly "slating" process-photographing the number of each scene, whacking two boards together to mark the end and beginning of the sound track. It would operate as quietly as a snowy night. Gone would be the cumbersome, crate-like "blimp" which covers the camera to keep its purring from drowning out actors' voices. The first version was tried on Shirley Temple from time to time, then hauled back for alterations and improve ments. Last Spring it did the complete photographic job on Shirley's Young People, recording the puzzled...
...excellent specimen - almost too good, in days when figureheads are taken to sum up their societies-out of the top drawer of British nobility. A huntin', shootin', fishin' county gentleman, he is not unlike Cartoonist David Low's ultra-ultra-conservative Colonel Blimp. When he left London for his new post, his most edifying remark was to some fellow members of the Marlborough Club: he said he would "try not to let the Club down...
...Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful for a rescuing Colonel Blimp. "Thank God for colonels, thought Mrs. Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel...
...well taught in music. "Lady music teachers . . . wrecked my technic and debauched my taste." He still likes to pound the piano but, "born with an intense distaste for vocal music ... to this day think of even the most gifted Wagnerian soprano as no more than a blimp fitted with a calliope." As for Karl Czerny, standard nightmare of every child's piano lessons: "So late as 1930, being in Vienna, I visited and desecrated his grave...