Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intention to be "overtactful" in the fast cutting from the hit Marine. I should like to have been able to show more of that particular scene, but unfortunately the burst from the Japanese machine-gun fire which hit the Marine in the picture caught the cameraman and stopped his camera with Death...
...lesson learned in World War II is that a daylight bomber is only as good as its gunnery. This week the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. announced an electronic gun sight which, its inventors said, extends the effective range of bomber machine guns from 600 to 1,000 yards...
With his excellent textbook on airplane photography, Lt. Col. James W. Bagley, Lecturer in airplane photography, has made a decided contribution to the success of Raisz's "plane's-eye" cartography. Widely used, its significance has been equalled by his fine-lens camera, and added to the work of Raisz and William K. Coburn, assistant in Geographical Exploration, it represents an important scientific effort toward victory. Coburn is noteworthy for work with short-wave radio and trial balloons...
Wrong-Way Pigeon. Part of their professional grief was the helpless frustration of losing hundreds of good shots. In the rush of Dday, many exposures were ruined, many negatives lost. One photographer who landed with paratroopers lost one movie and two still cameras while retreating under fire, barely managed to save another still camera to record the first few days' action. Severely wounded, another was forced to destroy all his exposed films when capture became inevitable...
Died. W. S. ("Dad") Lively, 88, pioneer tintypist, daguerrotypist and photographer whose works have long been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution, builder of the world's onetime largest camera (11 by 6 by 5 ft.); in McMinnville. Tenn...