Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane home on Monday without the Department of Commerce saying anything about it. . . . "* Guided by Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, provost of Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during...
...Lasky Corp. to direct their pictures, use his original art?an art of faces. Instead of finding an actor whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which may meet difficulties in Hollywood where, in an actor-population, every successful "type" is inevitably an actor-type; but it is practical in a story like Old and New, dealing...
...piano. There are sets that spring, completed, out of the floor, in time to notes of music. There are deep romantic backgrounds of Maxfield Parrish blue, ballets in the warmest, though slightly blurred, pastel tints yet achieved in technicolor. There are angled and overhead shots and hundreds of smart camera tricks. The whole is a musical show taking its continuity from a huge ledger called Paul Whiteman's Scrap Book. Charles Irwin, master of ceremonies, turns the pages; each page is an act in the revue and most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture...
Bombo Chevalier, California heavyweight, was on his feet again and ready to fight in the sixth round of his bout with Primo Camera, monster Italian. Suddenly the crowd stood up, yelled, hooted. Someone in Bombo's corner had thrown in a large white towel, giving the fight to Carnera. Immediately the California Boxing Commission started an inquiry, summoned Bombo, who said Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo...
...stories using the moving-picture business as a background, believing, probably quite correctly, that such stories in attempting to exploit the accidental glamour which is one of the most important assets of the business, satisfied public curiosity instead of stimulating it. This time the idea of having the camera follow Buster Keaton around the Culver City lot, where famed directors and entertainers are at work, is more successful than usual. It is a Merton-of-the-Movies story, with the comedian talking in a mellow voice that takes only a little sharpness out of his pantomime. Best shot: Keaton, cast...