Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record is complete, in its sketchy way, except for the final afternoon. At that time the gallant braving of the rain was abandoned, and the camera men did not follow the lucky few who were admitted into Memorial Hall. It is unfortunate that there is no commemoration of the disarming jocularity of that other President, Mr. Roosevelt, or of what was the highlight of the occasion for many Harvard men in spite of themselves, the delicate hilarity and profound good sense of President Angell...
Under the departmental heading LIFE on the American Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill...
...Camera Overseas, LIFE offered six pages of foreign pictures, including a shot of a vicious Bombay rioter, another of two old Russian collectivist farmers in a bath. For its promised party-of-the-week, LIFE went with British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to a hunt at the estate of the Comte de Fels near Paris. Readers are shown the famed and wealthy guests, the small army of beaters, the luxurious luncheon which punctuated the proceedings. LIFE'S last picture in its first appearance is the enormous bag of this day's sport-row after row of lifeless hare...
...ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces at the camera, before he was politely informed that the whole scheme had been dropped. When he heard that William Archer was also hood winked he was content. "God forbid," he said, "that anyone should say I did not see a joke, if William Archer could...
...broad-bladed knife. Rays emanating from Cyclops' head indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what in a newspicture would be the camera, the better to show his single eye. The flounced skirt which he wears was obsolete as ordinary apparel in Mesopotamia at the time of the carving (about 2,000 B.C.) and according to Dr. Frankfort the artist bungled its design...