Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
...bottle of gasoline and a card inscribed "Guerrilla" about her neck, hustled her off to a gallows in the village square of Petrisheva. Villagers were herded to watch the execution. The Germans stood Zoya on a box, dropped a noose around her neck. A German officer focused his camera...
...already condemned-but we shall make it clear where treason lurked and by whom France was betrayed." This was a threat which Daladier followed by quoting German speeches to prove that the Axis demanded the trial for propaganda purposes. Disturbed, the court threatened to hold further sessions in camera, next day adjourned for the weekend...
Canada's own Air Marshal and World War I Ace, William Avery ("Billy") Bishop, has a role to play in the picture: awarding wings to 1,000 R.C.A.F. cadets. They are an international force (Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, etc.), and the camera pauses to scan their faces: young, fresh, earnest, consolingly cocksure...
...until six years ago did Stevenson consider himself fit to direct a picture. By that time he knew his business, had visited Germany and France to study their excellent camera technique. The public liked his first picture (Tudor Rose), and Hollywood liked his second (Nine Days a Queen), offered him a contract. Says he: "There probably won't be a great movie made until the year 2000. Why? It took 1,800 years to produce a Beethoven, 1,600 years to produce a Rembrandt...