Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About seven years ago, the department started doing microstats. Starting with a second hand Leica camera, which had to be installed in a specially built frame-work to hold it, in place while in action, the work has grown in equipment to two automatic cameras which hold in hundred feet of firm as compared to the Leica's 35 frames...
...French and Arab soldiers who greeted the U.S. troops in Algiers, ends with a front-line view of the first major contact of U.S. and German forces: a tank battle at Tebourba. There, from a hilltop that looks little more than a grenade-throw from the battlefield, the camera watches a group of Nazi tanks deployed in a small valley. German cannon, concealed in straw-thatched sheds, fire at approaching U.S. tanks. Then U.S. artillery takes effect; the Nazi tanks turn tail (their tails are painted red to identify them for their own planes). As they crawl away, one Nazi...
...battles. At the Front has some of the most detailed closeups of attacking planes yet seen on the screen. It shows low-level enemy attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...
Arthur Guy Empey, 59, famed private who wrote World War I's best-selling Over The Top, was rediscovered by the camera's eye: he works on the "graveyard shift" as a guard at Vega Aircraft's plant in Burbank...
...lives learning to read these languages so that they might peek into one of the many thousands of volumes therein. These people, their friends call them curators, also know something about comparative zoology, and they delight in tracking down crustaecea, plodding through the pisces, and going "with gun and camera through the Alimentary Canal." Such bliss can only be found at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...