Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring, a bevy of music-lovers went to the railroad station to greet Maestro Arturo Toscanini. Bulky Photographer Howard Ballew was on hand to cover the arrival for Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express. Said Wilfred L. Davis of the Southern California Symphony Association, eyeing Ballew's camera: "Are you going to photograph Mr. Toscanini...
...Stillman's dingy gym on 8th Avenue, before last week's fight, the largest crowd since Primo Camera's day paid 35? apiece to watch Rocky prep for his go against Horne. At the Garden, 18,907 paid $108,974 to watch Rocky throw everything in the book at Boxer Horne, almost get his knockout in round 7. At the finish, a few fans booed. Said Rocky: "I win, didn...
Mexico is such a lively vacation center that tourism, at $50,000,000 a year, is the country's fourth largest industry. During the war, Mexico got a share of the fancy carriage trade which once dawdled along the Riviera. Now the prewar, wholesome, camera-slung gringo is driving down the splendid 750-mile highway from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City, to find that spiraling inflation has changed the land of cheap living he remembered. Nightclubs charge a $6 minimum, simple lunches cost...
...German Wehrmacht was slicing up Poland. Shelley worked in Sweden while her husband photographed the misbegotten Russo-Finnish war. She was in Portugal on the "balcony of Europe" when France fell. Eight months later she was in China, finding and setting up stories for her husband, placating unwilling camera subjects, dodging Japanese bombs and shellfire, writing her own copy. They got to Burma and Singapore ahead of the Japs, taking pictures and writing stories. Then they went to Manila-in October...
...most part, the action is painstakingly slow. But John Ford's expert direction, some beautiful camera work, and excellent performances by the principals keep it from dragging. Working for Director Ford (The Informer, The Grapes of Wrath), actors always seem to be more like themselves-or at least more like human beings-than they are in other pictures...