Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proceedings at Memorial Church basement were thrown into a sudden uproar yesterday when authorities discovered that none of the Freshman X-rays taken last Thursday disclosed a chest. A double check revealed that either 483 Freshmen have no ribs or something went wrong with the camera...
...team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down...
...Just Finished." The film begins with routine shots of Matisse's birthplace (Cateau-Cambrésis, in northern France) and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied. The narrator tells nothing of what makes Matisse one of the greatest painters living. But the moment the camera closes in on the 78-year-old master himself, Matisse takes charge. Blinking a little behind his gold-rimmed glasses (the floodlights apparently bothered him), Matisse faces the camera and his invisible interrogator with a grandfatherly smile, direct and forceful...
...Says Matisse: "Hard work." That sounded as if Matisse slaved over his paintings, and he does, though they never show it. The best of them look as if they had taken him a happy half-hour. In the film, Matisse gives away the secret of that effect, letting the camera peer over his shoulder while he draws his grandson's portrait again & again and then paints a bit from a girl model. The secret: speed of execution (which need not imply hasty conception...
From the moment the camera turns on him as he sits smoking a cigar in the bathtub to his final writhings on the floor of the boat, Edward G. Robinson could be Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz. At all times there is the loaded revolver, the two inch cigar, and "yah." Combining these devices with an excellent sneer, and some well handled lines, Robinson turns in his best acting job to date...