Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect as the play: a neat melodrama given an illusion of depth by the perspectives of its setting...
...exciting play of incident illuminated this story as it was told on the stage. The dark background of the house, squalid, heavy and forlorn, held it together and suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house...
...chute billows open. Those sensations have often been described in words, now they have been described in photographs. Three months ago two Germans, Willi Ruge and one Boettcher, made their first jumps from separate planes at Staaken Airdrome, Berlin, each armed with a small, specially designed automatic camera to photograph the other's descent and to take self-photographs during the jump. These pictures were printed six weeks ago in the Illustrated London News...
...Schmeling . . . shows an injury to the bony surroundings of the eye, bleeding of the conjunctiva, and a contusion of the eyeball, connected with swimming of objects before the eye and photophobe. . . ." The diagnosis made it plain that Max Schmeling will not defend his championship against Monstrous Primo Camera next September...
...Schmeling. . . . I'll fight again in August, if my hand's all right." The New York State Boxing Commission reiterated its strange belief that Sharkey is heavyweight champion. Promoter Jimmy Johnston, delighted with a capacity house, carried forward his plans for a late summer bout between Sharkey & Camera...