Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question if either one is a valuable addition. Football is a boys game: it is not a man's livelihood. All these trappings reduce a team to a Frankenstein constructed for the purpose of crushing other Frankensteins. They aren't necessary elements of any game. An espionage by camera might just as well be carried on in baseball. A slow motion picture would show the batting weakness of a rival college, or it would prove the exact trajectory of a star pitcher's out drop. But it wouldn't add to the enjoyment of either the watchers or the watched...
...success "unequaled in astronomical annals." Spectroscopic analyses of the incandescent gases which surround the sun showed a new wavelength which scientists had never known before. The visible spectrum ranges from 8,000 to 4,000 angstrom units.* Dr. Mitchell's wavelength was 6,770 angstrom units. The camera recorded what the astronomer's eyes had missed-disturbances in the corona on the east and west edges of the sun, caused probably by violent motions in the inner corona. Evidences of these upheavals were seen shooting out 100,000 mi. beyond the surface of the sun. Photographs showed coronal...
...familiarly called Tin Can Island. Astronomers had no choice. To see the eclipse they had to dare a difficult landing, pack themselves and their apparatus upon the inhabitable two square miles of Niuafou with the Polynesians. For baggage they carried materials for one 65-ft. and one 63-ft. camera, numerous smaller cameras, food for two months, spectroscopes, lumber, notebooks. Setting up their apparatus they tested it for a month in advance, rehearsed their parts. Rain and mist for 93 sec. at the time of the eclipse would have ruined everything...
...grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children under twelve...
...plot consists of a burning and temporarily thwarted romance between Rogers and the daughter of a socially ambitious mother. Helen ("Boop-boop-a-doop") Kane is in it and there are some handsome yacht scenes. Most interesting shot-Buddy Rogers lighting a cigaret before the camera for the first time in his career...