Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of the credit belongs accidentally to censorship and the camera. Censorship excised John Steinbeck's well-meant excesses. Camera-craft purged the picture of the editorial rash that blotched the Steinbeck book. Cleared of excrescences, the residue is the great human story which made thousands of people, who damned the novel's phony conclusions, read it. It is the saga of an authentic U. S. farming family who lose their land. They wander, they suffer, but they endure. They are never quite defeated, and their survival is itself a triumph...
Born. To Primo ("Old Satchelfoot") Camera, 33, hulking, gullible Italian roustabout, who became world heavyweight champion prize fighter in 1933, later a cinemactor, and Giuseppina Cavazzi Carnera, 27; their first child, a son; in Sequals, Italy. Weight: 11 lbs. Name: Umberto...
...putting Of Mice and Men on film Director Lewis (Milly) Milestone ran the same risk, faced enthusiastically the certainty that his camera lenses would exaggerate every flaw the author had covered with writing craft in the book. He also had to tone down to a rough whisper the novel's tangy native speech to suit the ears of censors...
...each foozled attack the respective High Commands merely concluded that the next one would have to mass still more men, concentrate still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters thinking, Romains begins to prepare the reader for the terrific attack that is to come. His camera is still high enough to take in the whole front: "a continuous scratch over which [the troops] formed like a scab and at every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless crackling of fire, a lethal trembling, as though something tormented, burning, and unapproachable had become...
...corpsy pudding by gunfire. The next chapter is a letter from Jerphanion to his wife in which he tells her of the rumor that G. H. Q. is about to form "shock troop" battalions, of his canny hope of getting a job in the rear as an instructor. The camera now turns to General Duroure, who is about to take his regular morning horse back ride...