Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This book says in effect that if the militarists want realism, we will give it to them. Here is war not seen through the lenses of anybody's prejudice but caught in the act by the camera. . . . Back of the camouflage of uniform and music, oratory and popular cheering, this is the gist and essence of war at the point where it specifically operates. . . . Let this book, then, do its quiet work. Let it say . . . that war is a mad and barbarous business...
...HORROR OF IT. Camera Records of War's Gruesome Glories?Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
...particular bit of action that every audience waits for is the transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. It is done here in close-up, in full sight of the camera. The director has managed a smooth bit of lap-dissolving, a technical tour-deforce. But he has not been as effective or imaginative as Mr. Barrymore, who simply put his hands up before his face and slowly drew them down again to reveal changed features. Again, Mr. March has authority from Stevenson to make some manner of noise during the transformation scene, which involved "the most racking pains . . . a grinding...
Discover World Inaccessible to Camera...
...these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every-day life. A pocket watch painted as an object so limp and pliable as to be used for a riding saddle, that is not abstract but it is fantastic. The "Surrealistes" of 1924 adopted Freudian psychology as a key to the subconscious world they wished to explore and depict...