Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most obvious fact about this movie is that it could hardly be improved on. Richard Murphy's script clarifies the community's characters, conflicts and issues in crisp, journalistic fashion; Norbert Brodine's camera work is as clean and precise as the script; the whole show ticks like an expensive watch. It is the best film to date by Producer Louis de Rochemont, who has already dedicated a couple of good ones (The House on 92nd Street, 13 Rue Madeleine) to the proposition that nothing is quite as real as the real thing, artfully used. This time...
...will be possible soon, says the Polaroid Corp. of Cambridge, Mass. Last week Polaroid's President Edwin H. Land demonstrated his new invention: a camera that takes a picture in the ordinary way, then delivers a finished positive print in less than a minute...
Easy Snapping. For the cameraman, there's no trick to it. He snaps the picture, pulls the film out of the camera, tears it off against a built-in knife edge. A sheet of special paper comes plastered against the face of the film. After 50 seconds it can be peeled away: a finished positive print, only faintly damp...
Inventor Land's speedup process takes all the steps at the same time. An ordinary commercial film with an opaque back is exposed in the usual way. The photographer pulls it out of the camera along with a sheet of special paper. Attached to the paper is a "pod" (containing a viscous chemical mixture) which is broken when it passes two small rollers. The chemicals are spread evenly between film and paper, sticking them closely together (see diagram...
...special camera is needed to take Land pictures, but not an elaborate or radically different type. Polaroid says that one is being designed for mass production, but does not promise how soon it will hit the market...