Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first speaker of the day-of any of the five convention days-advanced to the microphone, floor and galleries began filling up, and the convention came alive. Photographers jostled in belligerent knots, each holding a camera to his eye like a unicorn adjusting his horn. Heat and humidity rose. Coats came off and the face of the crowd moved with the urgent fluttering of thousands of cardboard fans. Within minutes it was hot enough to grow orchids...
...Philadelphia last week, the television camera was more important than a good political slogan-and more frightening than a powerful political enemy. Never had a national convention been so continuously and fully mirrored. Thanks to TV, about ten million spectators along the Eastern seaboard actually saw the convention in action. In scattered communities across the U.S., five million others saw telefilm versions while the news was still warm-three to 24 hours after it happened. It was far & away the biggest gallery television had ever...
...LIFE-NBC Room 22 sideshows often took the shine off the big show at Convention Hall. In a carefully plotted campaign, reporters and radiomen corralled every major candidate and conventioneer before the Room 22 camera, filled in their backgrounds with documentary films, hustled the audience into caucases, scored several newsbeats. Outstanding scoop: Dewey's press conference, where LIFE-NBC television beat radio and newsreels...
...camera had the run of the city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
Ordinarily the stage, at the close of Hamlet, is so heavy with corpses that it looks like a hold full of haddock. But Olivier's camera threads among the dead & dying with special tact...