Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perhaps not daring at all because his was a concentrated, icy, shrewdly calculated excitement, he greatly won. He lost money at more than $10,000 per month for nearly two years-and then got it back to spend over again even faster. He toured Europe intermittently (with a camera) and dreamed expanding dreams. Once, crossing San Francisco Bay, he drew rings around the country's great cities and said to his mercurial employe George Pancoast: "Some day, a paper here and here and here." Around New York he drew a double ring...
...pilgrims from northern Italy filed devoutly and stood against the wall. When Pope Pius came in by another door, all knelt. As the Pope stood he spied a kneeling man who towered above the others. He asked the prelate at his side, ''Isn't that Primo Camera?" It was. Said the Pope, who disapproves of prizefighting. "It seems God could not enrich him physically more abundantly." When he raised his arm to bless the group, he gestured specially at Italy's heavyweight champion...
...difficult to communicate the charm of so fanciful a story as Zoo in Budapest -a charm which lies less in the narrative than in Rowland Lee's expert 'direction and in the fine camera work of Photographer Lee Cannes who last winter received the Cinema Academy's Award for his work in Shanghai Express. First of a series of eight pictures being made at Fox studios by an individual producing unit under Paramount's onetime Vice President Jesse Lasky, Zoo in Budapest should excite interest in forthcoming Lasky productions, of which The Warrior's Husband...
...competition for the Business Board, candidates will learn the management of a daily paper and will form contacts with local and national business concerns for the purpose of getting advertising. Photographic men will learn the routine work of camera operation and film developing, and will soon be engaged in taking pictures of various types for the publication...
...sharp staccato phrase she tells his countrymen of his accomplishments, of the growth of Italy, and, as he mentions each aspect of the Facist regime, the camera swings off to the drone of Lowell Thomas' voice, to show the actual scenes of these achievements. There are great liners plowing across the ocean, droves of airplanes in faultless formation, spotless dams thrown across huge canyons, and smoke-stacks that dwindle away into the sky. But it in not these sights which arouse wonder; it is the fact that this Mussolini, whose powerful voice keeps coming back, a little hoarser...