Word: camera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gasp and shudder by Robert Siodmak (Christmas Holiday, Phantom Lady), who was born in Memphis, Tenn. but developed his talent for terror in the great studios of pre-Hitler Germany. Notably frightening scene: suspicious Inspector Ridges re-enacting the probable method of murder for the appalled widower while the camera, taking possession of Laughton's brain, flicks from bit to bit of the scene of the crime, turning a dark wardrobe, a torn stair-carpet, into so many kicks in the emotional midriff...
Rebecca Welles, six-week-old daughter of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles (see PRESS), showed signs of having inherited her parents' camera appeal, did some photogenic cooing at her mother...
Newsman Cowan, 34, a shy, stocky, serious Omaha World-Herald reporter-photographer who covers the police run on weekends, was sitting in Omaha's detective bureau when the accident call droned in over the radio. Racing down two flights of stairs to the pressroom, he grabbed his camera, ran for his car. Too rushed to put on his tire chains, he set off behind the police ambulance (which had chains) in a skidding, hair-raising, 75-block chase over slippery roads, through red lights, down an icy hill. At the bottom of the hill...
...camera moves quietly up the aisles of briefing rooms, or quietly hovers over the coffee tables, recording the faces of newly wakened men as they hear their assignment, or of worn-out men telling precisely how they carried it out. The sound track drinks in the clumsy quips, the murmurs of assent or pleasure, the grain of each man's character and dialect and humor and attitude as he replies to his questioner. Skillfully cut, this splendid material is wisely allowed to dominate with its own instructive image and sound the neutral, informative voice of the commentator...
Jammin' the Blues (Warner) is hailed by Walter Winchell as "a new sort of camera teknik." On the Warner lot, too, people have a feeling that the picture may bring short-subjects a new lease on life...