Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pulham embodies the reflections of a Boston investment counsel when his 25th Class Reunion Committee asks him for a brief biography of his life. Back goes the camera into his well-to-do Boston upbringing, his "carryon" prep-school days at St. Swithin's; Harvard and culture; World War I and the Argonne; Manhattan and the advertising business; the girl he loved (Hedy Lamarr); his easy, fateful slide into his late father's (Charles Coburn) sinecure; his passionless marriage to his mother's choice (Ruth Hussey); his slightly bewildered, slightly querulous, slightly pathetic acceptance of his fate...
...build Grand Central's record-breaking photomural the Treasury Department turned to Washington's Farm Security Administration, whose energetic photography head, onetime Economics Instructor Roy Stryker, has spent eight years getting every aspect of U.S. rural life photographed for FSA's mountainous camera files. Department Chief Stryker and his assistants looked at 15,000 prints before they found the perfect 20. Then they took a face from one photograph, a sky or a piece of building from another, joined them together like pieces of a mosaic, and enlarged the results until they were several times life size...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
Although its dedication ceremonies, to be attended by many American scientists, are planned for February, much of the observatory's equipment is already in operation. The mounting for a 24-30. inch Schmidt camera, which will be the most powerful telescope in the tropics, is now under construction at Cambridge...
...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...