Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Eastman, going through Africa with gun and camera, came upon a white rhinoceros. The rare brute looked at him loweringly; he looked at the brute steadily along rifle sights; shot it dead...
...some eminence, having at an earlier date been associated with Jack London on the cruise of the Snark in the role of cook & bottle washer. Later he acquired a wife and a taste for photography. For his latest film he went through British East Africa with wife and camera. Four years ago Mr. & Mrs. Johnson established themselves in the jungle, set up their picture takers, and invited the animals to "see the birdie." Their reels reveal that alligators, elephants, wild-beasts, ostriches, zebras, water buffalo, giraffes, antelopes, and lions saw the birdie. Close-ups of these various beasts in their...
...habit of Director David Lew-elyn Wark Griffith to sentimentalize his sound themes, to intensify the subtlety of a straightforward situation by allowing the lens of his camera to point for long and frequent intervals at the almost im mobile face of one of his characters. This he does under the name of art; its effect upon the cinema is most unhealthy, be cause it prevents the plot from achieving a proper momentum. Aside from this foible, Director Griffith is consistently aware of his story's potentialities. His photography is always dextrous, at times brilliantly effective. Director Griffith...
...meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers at Detroit, C. Francis Jenkins of Washington displayed his "chronoteine [time stretching] camera." It consists of a 13-in. disc holding on its periphery 48 lenses. As the lenses revolve a photographic film moves back of the disc. Normal exposures are 3,200 a second, possible exposures 10,000 a second. (The ordinary cinema camera takes 16 views a second.) Utility: Resolving for leisurely observation the details of swift moving machinery, gun fire, water flow...
Beebe has recently returned from Gonave Bay, Halti, where by means of a specially, constructed motion picture camera he has obtained a picture of life in the deeps of the acean...