Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richard Wagner fashioned famous operas. The forging of the sword, the search for the princess Kremhild; the pact to trick Brunhild into marriage with Kremhild's brother; and the death of Siegfried are chief incidents. The magic of ancient imaginations lives again in the magic of the modern camera as Siegfried wanders through the enchanted wood, slays the dragon, becomes impervious to weapon wounds, captures the web whereby he can change his shape at will...
...industry, are paying genius prices to mediocrity. . . . We have got to bring into the business good minds . . . willing to study the camera and its possibilities as well as its limitations...
...Newspaper correspondents discovered that a friend had given Mrs. Coolidge "the first camera which she has used since entering the White House," discovered that the camera was of German make. Crowding at a respectful distance about the President and his wife, they recorded with precision that Mrs. Coolidge took two pictures of the Chief Executive with his hat on, another with his hat off, others near the piazza, near the barn door, near the flower garden. Mrs. Coolidge, having exhausted her first roll of film, tried unsuccessfully to unload the unfamiliar German magazine. The President, appealed to, was unable...
...wise, fractionally exposes a sensitized base to desired characters, where they were photographed. The base thus articulated, corresponding in function to type set by a linotype machine, can be inked and run off on paper. Different sizes in type are obtained by automatic adjustment of the focus of the camera lens...
When friends tell you tall stories of their rough sea passage-how mountainous, star-blotting waves towered "50, 60, 100 feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...