Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome two humble composite minions took up the task of pleasing Dictator Mussolini once more. They were La Camera dei Deputati and Il Senato. Together they formed perhaps the most enthusiastically abject Parliament ever assembled upon the Seven Hills...
...Camera warmed to its work with the presentation to Il Benito, amid stentorian cheers, of a sheaf of laurel-a token of the Deputies' relief at his escape from assassination (TIME...
...Daily News was first. In its pages appeared the photograph of a man who had just been struck by a truck. He was shown lying on his back on the pavement, a disheveled white-faced form, under the caption SPEEDY WORK BY CAMERA MAN. As a matter of fact, the "speedy work" was not so notable as it might have seemed, for the accident had occurred within a stone's throw of the editorial rooms of the News; a camera man had merely to dash down stairs and run a block to take the offensive photograph. In this example...
...motion" pictures one day when looking out at a Manhattan crowd through a ground glass in the back of a camera. Then Martin had told him about having taken pictures in rapid sequence, and Inventor LeRoy had worked out a machine for projecting them. On his 40th birthday, in 1894, LeRoy made his first demonstration, then toured...
...faced with a serious problem in practical ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists are right, he should have climbed out of his tweeds and subsidiary garments and posed in the bristling mustache which cartoons made famous during...