Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direction is an example of the importance of the people on the other side of the camera. The director has understood the human interest of the human face and its value as an intellectual object. He has made his picture a gallery of churchmen and a saint. It is a succession of strong eye-and-thought-compelling features with intermittently the reaction to them of Joan's remarkable visage. Faces at all angles and distances, but usually as close-ups, character sketches of celluloid. Through the characterizations, medieval in their sincere brutality, rather than in setting a la Hollywood...
...Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs...
Virtues. Such compliments as U S A had to pay to U. S. culture were chiefly expressed by means of studied photography -arty shots of ballet dancing; a mechanistic fragment of a Ford factory; "a brilliant and precise camera study of a barbed wire fence post." Also there were essays and stories in the modernist manner...
...Primo Camera, whopping big Italian fisticuffer, denied that he would marry a Miss Emelia Tersini of London. His manager characterized the affair as "merely a flirtation." He is 6 ft. 7 in. tall, weighs 275 Ibs. She is 5 ft. 7, brunette, comely...
...equipment which the Film Foundation has purchased consists of a powerful are light, a special microscope, and an ordinary motion picture camera. The subject is placed under the microscope and the are light is focused through it. The light first has to pass through water, however, in order to prevent the heat from destroying the microscopic subjects of the filming. The microscope is equipped with a prism that divides the light sending ninety per cent of it to the camera and the remaining ten per cent to the eye of the photographer, who is by this contrivance enabled to watch...