Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When an animator and his assistants complete a scene, a test camera photographs the sketches on a film strip. Running this back and forth in a small two-way projector known as a moviola, the animator spots "bugs and bobbles," jerkiness or missteps in the animation. Not until a set of drawings is approved by Walt and the director does it go to the inking and "painting department, where over 150 nimble-fingered girls trace the sketches on 12½-by-15-in. celluloid transparencies, called "cels," paint in the designated coloring from a store of 1,500 colors...
...Greninger has also developed a method of utilizing X-ray diffraction comeras for the measurement of crystal spacings. Through the use of this camera one photograph taken in less than an hour and interpreted in a few minutes will completely establish the orientation of metallic crystals, whereas formerly a careful observer might spend the larger part of a day in getting the same results. This method has now been adopted as standard practice in most metallurgical laboratories throughout the country. Dr. Greninger is also engaged in the study of the change of crystal structure in the send state...
...picture, and then settled down to some fun with the Willard's diminutive bellhop, Joe Johnson, posing him in innumerable belligerent attitudes defending the door against all comers. After exhausting the possibilities of Joe Johnson, who informed them that he had once been photographed perched on Primo Camera's arm, the reporters and newsmen gleefully learned that the Willard was serving them free lunch and liquor. They ate in shifts, later took turns in a poker game, for any opening of the locked door might mean the biggest labor story since the strike in "Little Steel." Some papers...
...audience containing as many wives and girl-friends of political bigwigs as Warner's astute publicity department could coax into the theatre. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was invited but did not attend. Had she been there, however, she would probably not have been offended by this candid camera record of female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
...suit in which Max Nohl made last week's record dive was designed by himself, with the aid of Captain John Craig, a writer, lecturer and explorer who had invented a successful undersea camera. The suit is of rubber and weighs, with helmet, shoes and weights, 200 Ib. An underdress of heavy fleece wool and waterproof canvas is worn inside, the rubber canvas trousers, with pockets, outside. The helmet is cylindrical, has a glass window ⅜ in. thick all the way around, so that the diver has as wide an angle of vision as he can turn his head...