Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crown. For years astronomers rushed to the ends of the earth, chasing eclipses so they could photograph the corona for a few minutes while the sun itself was blacked out. Several years ago Bernard Lyot, an obscure astronomer of the Paris Observatory, invented the coronagraph, a combination telescope and camera that created an artificial eclipse...
...simple. A metal disc is placed at the focus of the telescope lens to cut out the bright sun image. A second lens focuses on photographic film the black disc and flaring corona, and a powerful spectrograph breaks up coronal radiation into its component colors. A moving picture camera can also be attached to the telescope...
...ingenious Roaches put fur coats on a pair of old Los Angeles elephants, Queenie and Sally, to simulate mammoths. A cow was similarly bewigged to make an aurochs. Dinosaurs used in the picture are four-foot-long South American tejus blown up by trick camera work to Mesozoic dimensions. Victor in the dinosaur battle is a baby alligator with a fin dubbed in his back...
Lights Out in Europe (Kline). In the war-sultry May of 1939 a short, heavyset, peaceful-looking young American bought steamship tickets for Europe and began to pack his motion picture camera equipment. He smelled fighting...
...camera reveals in the still life of the room-Rebecca's ash tray still heaped with cigarette stubs, the over-plump cushions of her flowered couch-the real life of the woman which her husband is revealing for the first time to another person. As Olivier pauses, the cobwebbed telephone shrills like a police siren in the silence; scene and story reach their star-shell denouement...