Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kneel down in front of me," commanded Statesman Stimson, at the same time bringing a camera into focus. "Kneel down, and while you take a picture of me I shall take a picture of you in that position...
...Madison Square Garden, full to the rafters, Primo Camera, Italian monster (6 ft. 6 in.), strode toward the ring, grinning. He wore a bright green cap and a sleeveless sweater from which protruded biceps as big as a strong man's thigh. His weight was annonnced at 269½. In the opposite corner was his first U. S. opponent, Big Boy Peterson, a New Orleans Swede, only two inches shorter but 60 Ib. lighter. Big Boy stared with a white, sick face at the giant, and when the bell rang rushed toward him, was knocked down four times...
Technicolor is the trade name of a process invented by Dr. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, onetime (1913-15) professor of electro-chemistry and metallurgy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now president of a $35,000,000 corporation. Dr. Kalmus built his first camera ten years ago. It took 15 months to build and cost $120,000. Technicolor cameras are cheaper now, but there are not many of them available ; a year ago there were only eight in the world. Technicolor, Inc. owns exclusive rights to its process - not the best process yet discovered for taking pictures in color, but the only...
...Verne are essentially scenarios, and good ones. Monstrous engines, undiscoverable worlds, half-human and superhuman people which no words, even when manipulated with Verne's genius for combining the staccato and the nebulous, could quite make real, become more interesting when you see them concretely produced for the camera. This is one of Verne's submarine pieces. Director Lucien Hubbard has caught the right atmosphere and Lionel Barrymore seems to enjoy his role as the submarine builder and conqueror of the fish-men of the ocean bottom. But The Mysterious Island is too long and too complicated...