Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proprietor of the Hotel du Caveau "rented Panache's room now and then for twenty-minute periods to streetwalkers who did not draw the color line." The street was delighted when he contracted the barber's itch. >M. de Malancourt, a wealthy gentleman, had an "astonished camera artist take an art photo of his plump and symmetrical backsides, without drapery." Then he sent a handsomely mounted and autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great...
...Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked, and it is definitely known that the officer witnessed the destruction...
This assault indicates that Social Justice's misguided following in Boston is irate about the Government's attempt to silence their subversive sheet. Not only did the patrolman fail to interfere with the demolition of the camera, but he also said he read and approved the magazine. An America First and Social Justice leader said last night that he thought the Traveler's "unfair" story would increase the number of Boston readers which far exceed the reported 200,000, he boasted. It is undeniable that the appeasers are anxious that Coughlin's paper should be more widely read...
...become a sort of political boss. Despite superficial appearances, surrealism had certain rather logical foundations. Fearing that the art of photography would some day beat all realistic art at its own game, Breton and a band of modern painters decided to find a field of painting where the camera could not go. The subconscious world of dreams was obviously inviolable. The researches of Sigmund Freud suggested that dream symbols, were often more real to the human mind than reality itself...
...United Artists) is a bold attempt by the epic-minded Brothers Korda (Producer Alexander and Director Zoltan) to make Kipling's beloved animal fable of Mowgli, the Hindu boy who was raised by jungle wolves, into a movie. It can't be done. The myth-destroying movie camera produces a laborious, sometimes silly tale, saved from disgrace only by some of the best Techni-colored animal photography extant...