Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words could not, the camera's eye recorded the story of a people (see cut). Somewhere in war-torn Italy, planes dived low. In this instance, they were Nazi; they might have been Allied. In their wake, a gaunt father bore his hurt child. This was a paesano's burden-and Italy's burden. This was a reminder that while courtiers clung to privilege, politicians wrangle'd and alien soldiery racked the land, a nation of 45,000,000 was in transition, stumbling from Fascismo to a less evil destiny, suffering in its hours of expiation...
These are typical achievements of a group of flyers who have had much less attention than fighter and bomber pilots, but whose job is one of the most skilled and dangerous in the air. Addressing the photogrammetrists, Air Chief Henry ("Hap") Arnold observed that "often a camera mounted on a P-38 has proved of far greater importance than a P-38 with its normal complement of guns...
...pilots usually fly unarmed-and they must return from their missions. They generally take their photographs at very high altitudes (over 30,000 ft.). Both the U.S. and Royal Air Forces now assign their best planes for reconnaissance. The U.S. favorite is a stripped-down P-38, with five cameras in the nose instead of guns. The Flying Fortress, with eleven cameras, is also used, on less hazardous missions. The British use Mosquitoes and Spitfires. Military needs have fathered many innovations, such as flash bombs for night photography, a new camera with a strip of moving film for fast picture...
Lifeboat (20th Century-Fox] is one of the most ambitious films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little...
...Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (as the landlord), Sara Allgood and Merle Oberon, are not as exciting as they should be. Exciting enough is Miss Oberon's cancan (see cut). Notable exception to the general thrillessness is Doris Lloyd as she backs up, shaking and gasping, while the camera, personifying the Ripper, saunters jaggedly toward her into a tremendous close-up of total fear...