Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very absurd effects, such as that of a chase in which the music switched back from the pursued to the pursuer with every move of the camera. The leit-motif was abused, rather than used by composers for greater unity...
...feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written records on microfilm...
...inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset...
Three Fox technicians-the late bulky, impetuous Charles Melvin Miller, quiet, balding Robert Stevens and congenial, greying Grover Laube-first commenced work on the 20th Century Camera six years ago in a cubicle of the Fox camera department hidden down an obscure alley of the sprawling studio. For two years they labored long after hours, completed the first working model by 1936. Their purpose: to produce an instrument simple and speedy to operate, light enough to be toted by one man. An automatic focussing device would eliminate the time-eating practice of plunging a tape into an actor...
Weighing only 115 Ib. (three more than Arleen) including tripod, against 425 Ib. for the old camera not counting its bulky steel undercarriage, as comparatively simple as a Brownie, the new camera had its official unveiling for Fox executives last month at a dinner in the studio commissary. Two complete camera crews (cameraman and two assistants) operated the old and new cameras for their bosses while a stop watch timed the performances. At "go" each crew swung its camera into line, slated the film, checked focus, exposed 45 feet of film, stopped, slated the next "take," made another 45-foot...