Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...instead explain his films as they are thrown upon the screen. These moving pictures are the only ones that have ever been taken of wild animals that were not wounded, drugged, or in captivity. In making, these photographs no beaters were employed to drive the beasts up to the camera...
Then the king landed. He was met by a camera of the True News Corporation, and a small committee of welcome. The welcome was satisfactory but "la mode" was not. The latest importations had stimulated American industry but M. Poiret did not like them. He strongly objected to the popular French perfume and the most costly Parisien hats. "American women have not ze sense of beauty: Zey do not even like monkey...
...most important requisites of a successful photographer is the ability to think quickly and act on the spur of the moment. In many cases the man with the camera has only one chance to photograph what he wants, and if he doesn't act at the right time, he loses the picture. This is true of taking pictures of notables, and in taking action pictures, especially in sports. The man who can take a picture of a football play at the precise time when the play is in its most interesting stage is a valuable asset to the paper...
Moving pictures of the regatta at New London last June in which the University and Yale crews participated will be shown in the Living Room of the Union on Monday night, December 5, at 7.45 o'clock. The pictures, which were taken by the ultra-rapid camera to bring out the form used in rowing, will be shown under the auspices of the crew management, and will be open, free of charge, to all members of the University...