Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...
Playboy-Golfer Frank Stranahan, heir to Champion Spark Plug millions, who plays aggressive championship golf for the fun of it (British, Canadian, and Mexican amateur champion), and lifts weights on the side for his figure, bulged a few of his better muscles for the camera (see cut) in Pinehurst, N.C. Then he whacked out a few of his better shots to add the North-South Amateur crown to his collection, for the second time...
Since network television rules forbid any act of violence to be shown (after all, Greek tragedy had the same convention), Georgia was done in just offscreen. A man's voice murmured: "What nice lipstick you use . . ." Georgia shrieked and dropped the phone she was using. The camera panned blankly at the phone while the dirty work was done...
Brightest spot in this murky yarn is the clear, vigorous, imaginative camera work. There are beautiful shots of Havana's buildings rising like white frozen fountains at the end of receding alleys, and some brilliant bits on the revolution in full swing. There are also good performances by Jennifer Jones, David Bond, Gilbert Roland (as a calypso-crooning conspirator), and onetime silent-star Ramon Novarro (as a middle-aged plotter...
Prints and slides will be judged by M. I. Elis, president of the Boston Camera Club, and James M. Carpener, assistant professor of Fine Arts. The judges will hold a public showing of the color slides in the Union Upper Common Room on the final contest day. Black and white prints will be judged in a private contest with the point of choosing a "print of the year...