Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowded in the back seat in a nest of cameras, radio and machine guns, cramped by bulky flying clothes, thumb-fingered by heavy gloves, roosting over his camera as he takes pictures of enemy territory, the observer is jolted by rough air, well knows what it is to be airsick, what it is to be bounced about by peppery pilots (who seldom worry about the guy behind). He has the daylights scared out of him half the time...
...Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic "calm and open stare." "So," says Author Koeves, "Narcissus might have looked into the clear surface of a limpid stream...
...Sothern, although she still looks like Maisic, warbles with plenty of enthusiasm and not a little artistry; aided by a cleverly guided camera, she does a top-notch job with "The Last Time I Saw Paris," and in the rest of her numbers manages to do more than her share of scene-stealing. Eleanor Powell, away from the screen for too long, taps and jigs effectively, although she isn't given much to do. These two, aided considerably by some fellows named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must...
...Dunkirk, asks of a returning fighter pilot: "What's it really like over there?" Drawls the laconic airman: "Cloudy." The cinema's first reconstruction of the retreat from Dunkirk-which seems destined to become as useful in drama and story as the Battle of Waterloo-has a camera angle that is certainly non-Axis. Isolationist Senators might well call Yank pro-British propaganda. Even more obviously it is pro-box-office propaganda...
Parts of the book come as close to reproducing the actual as words and pictures can. Evans' photographs of the landlord, the tenant families, their houses and town are as direct and honest as though his camera had no lens at all. Agee heaps up verbal detail on everything he saw or imagined, including...