Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third...
...broke all the TV rules & regulations on this show," says Lord. "The camera doesn't shift around, it stays on people's faces. The only time it moves is to show the bag of their trousers or the length of a sleeve. The courtroom is only in there for conflict-I wanted just to look at people's faces...
...reporter for a small-town newspaper, Sarah has an easygoing role which she wears with relaxed assurance. She joins forces, romantically and politically, with a young editor (Norman Wooland) who is bent on exposing a crooked housing project backed by the town fathers. Meanwhile the camera, true to the best British cinema traditions, is out to explore the quirks and quackeries of local society. Some of its finds-notably an overstuffed, off-key performance of the Operatic Society-are bright and amusing. Other bits & pieces have already been tarnished by too much handling...
From an artistic standpoint, "A Touch of the Times" has much so its credit. Photography has been under the direction of Hugh C. Foster '49, an Academy Award winner for his camera work on the Antarctic documentary, "Secret Land." And in place of running dialogue, an original musical score has been completed by a promising local composer. Yoder is highly enthusiastic about this music, and terms it one of the movie's biggest assets...
Repetition, in fact, is Director Sturges' specialty. Some of his gags, even the most familiar ones, are run through the camera four or five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...