Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...running into some of the community's better-known Bright Boys. "I am short of the old I-am," he explains. "When I get mixed up with Nunnally Johnson or Herman Mankiewicz or Ben Hecht, I am struck dumb. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera." Actually, the very sound brain in his head doesn't run either to wit or to highbrow intellectual discussion. Alfred Hitchcock has said of him that he is probably the most anecdoteless man in Hollywood; it does not come natural to him either to tell anecdotes or to inspire them...
Merrill P. Minis and Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Ellis, prominent exhibitors and members of the Boston Camera Club, are the judges who will give free advice to local amateurs...
Even those who have often considered the great potentialities of the motion picture as an art medium may pause on seeing "Shoeshine" and wonder that a group of actors and technicians could so well utilize the camera while handicapped by the frugality of post-war Italy. But out of such handicaps have grown the film's virtues. Somehow it is almost forgotten that "Shoeshine" was written, acted, directed. Rather it seems that the camera has moved unnoticed down the among the gamins of Rome's streets and recorded there a bit of life as it was happening in Italy...
...Commandant's jalousied house on Key West's submarine base-which Harry Truman now calls the "Winter White House"-the President had found privacy and relaxation. He slept late (for him), until after seven, napped in the afternoons, sunbathed on the beach. With a movie camera recently given him by White House photographers, he took pictures of the donors and members of his staff, enjoyed the shooting...
...stand up to cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...