Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington was given over to an exhibition of Pioneer Jackson's aged photographs. Admired by public and connoisseurs alike were the vivid detail and panoramic scope of the mountain and forest views that Old Master Jackson had snap ped with his battered, wooden 6½-by-8½ camera in days when photography was scarcely more than a stunt. Best exhibit of all was spry Oldster Jackson himself, stooped and white-bearded but talkative and effervescent...
...that Rebecca follows Daphne du Maurier's novel as faithfully as Gone With the Wind followed Margaret Mitchell's. So Director Hitchcock faced the usual problem of filming a wordy book -how to convey long-winded off-stage narrative background without slowing up the fast-moving camera. Out of this handicap Director Hitchcock makes his most exciting scenes. Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father...
Hitchcock uses every directorial device to orchestrate the monologue - the contrasting emotional tones (now expletive, now subdued, now casual) of Olivier's beautifully controlled voice, the dramatic pantomime of his gestures (now hopeless, now resentful, now resigned). Every angle of the fatal room is probed as the camera follows Olivier while he walks about aimlessly or leans restlessly against a wall, a chair, a window...
Freshmen can also try out for two vacant positions on the photo board. Besides a news photographer who is equipped to a "flash" work, the board is looking for a man who will specialize on still work with a large camera. He will prepare pictorials for full page feature articles which will appear in the CRIMSON frequently during the spring...
Director Ernest Schoedsack, who co-produced manhunting King Kong, elephant-hunting Chang, achieved most of this picture's smooth Technicolored deceptions. Some were done by trick camera work and film processing. Some were done by using massive sets with doors 35 feet high, chairs and tables 12 to 15 feet high...