Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carefully avoiding an overabundance of sea seenes, the picture builds up gradually to the action at Trafalgar. These battle shots, however, lose some of their potential liveliness when the camera swings from fleet to fleet and gun to gun so often that the audience wonders at times just who the hell is taking the termite beating. Though the show cannot be recommended as a substitute for History 42 reading, it still unfolds its story neatly enough to warrant a couple of hours away from the books...
Then 75 White House news photographers bobbed up on the south grounds and Harry Truman went out to see what it was all about. They gave him a movie camera and a still camera. He promptly took pictures of them, turned on them their own refrain: "Just one more, please...
...public event in Mexico can hardly be called official until there has been a scuffle between the camera-toting Casasolas. Members of Mexico's royal family of photography have been fighting among themselves ever since Grandfather Agustín turned picture-taker 70 years ago. Says smiling Grandmother Doña Refugio: "My husband Agustín taught them to fight for their pictures, and that's the way it should be. And anyway, we are all united in the big projects...
...VitaVision has turned out only about a dozen cameras. Before long, Fox and Towne hope to make enough to have them snapping portraits in department stores and portrait studios all over the U.S. Soon, the company hopes to make a smaller camera to sell to amateurs, along with a home developing kit. But Fox thinks that the biggest money is in commercial advertising. The company is already making color slides of products to display in stores in specially lighted frames. Among the first customers was Noma Electric Corp. with an order for 50,000 slides...
...Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...