Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief drawback to the films is that the screen is so small that objects in the background are all but subvisible. There is practically nothing but drawbacks to the live programs. The actors, who tan under the Birdseye lights, must work at very close quarters to stay within the camera's focus. They seem to have to compensate for physical restriction by overemoting. Twenty hours of rehearsal are required for an hour of telecasting (an average of four hours for an hour in broadcasting). The dramatic material should be artistically equivalent at least to a Grade B movie...
...Britain, most popular television stunts have been telecasts of public events like tennis matches, boat races, fights, the Coronation. Recently, Londoners saw BBC Commentator Thomas Woodrooffe eat his hat before the television camera to keep a promise made in a sports broadcast. The hat was made of sugar-coated cake...
...first camera kiss as a ranking star, however, is given to Gene Raymond while the two of them, cast as a pair of jewel thieves, are hiding from the police in the house of a once-famed pianist (Lewis Stone). During the starry embrace the dark-eyed maiden shows no lack of promise...
Featuring 50 pages of candid camera shots of house members engaged in various extra-curricular activities, the Deacons Testament, Kirkland House yearbook, will appear in the first week of June...
Flynn got his first cinema job through a group of film makers who remembered him as a stalwart lad whose boat had taken them on a camera expedition up New Guinea's dangerous Sepik River. The offered role turned out to be that of Fletcher Christian, in a film to be called In the Wake of the Bounty. In an old blond wig ("which made me look like a harlot") he swaggered for a week or so at $5 a day on the poop of a grounded H. M. S. Bounty on rockers. After the completion of the film...