Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Henry Scobie, leading man in The Heart of the Matter, is singled out as by a movie camera's swooping eye from the rest of the world; and readers of Graham Greene's previous novels will not have to read far in this one before they know that they have met Scobie and his world before. For this world, disguised though it is under African heat, is the same cruel, sordid, vulturous hell that Greene has conjured up in most of 14 books, and Hero Scobie is Greene's equally familiar creation-a sinner disguised...
...director, Griffith hit the picture business like a tornado. Before he walked on the set, motion pictures had been, in actuality, static. At a respectful distance, the camera snapped a series of whole scenes, clustered in the groupings of the stage play. Griffith broke up the pose. He rammed his camera into the middle of the action. He took closeups, crosscuts, angle shots and dissolves. His camera was alive, picking off shots; then he built the shots into sequences, the sequences into tense, swift narrative. For the first time the movies had a man who realized that while a theater...
Television looked like a threat to the picture services, if a distant one. As an experiment, the New York Star last week published three pictures of the Democratic Convention photographed in Manhattan from a television screen by an ordinary camera (and no flashlights). LIFE also ran similar pictures this week. Acme, the New York Post and the New York Daily News have also taken pictures from television screens. Their results, like the Star's, have been too fuzzy and distorted to run as news pictures, though no worse than the early wired photos. But television will improve...
Between helping the injured, working his camera, and taking his story notes, Mydans found plenty of evidence why the people of Fukui held the American military governor, Lt. Col. James Hyland, in such high regard. In socks and undershorts, Hyland's instant command was "set up a first aid station on the lawn"-where broken and bleeding Japanese flocked even before the second quake hit a few minutes later. Then, when it was discovered that all communication was cut off, he ordered three reconnaissance teams to fight their way out of the city, and not to come back until...
...Black. Howard Robard Hughes Jr., an only child, was born in Houston on Christmas Eve, 1905. At the age of three he showed his interest in gadgets by taking pictures with a box camera. Later he showed his inordinate persistence by practicing on the saxophone at all hours of the day & night, until he had mastered it. Young Howard and his playmate, Dudley Sharp (son of Hughes Sr.'s partner), built a wireless set, mostly out of old doorbell parts and other junk. When Howard asked for a motorcycle and was refused, he made a motor...