Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More eloquent than words was the camera's record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost...
Craig went on to explain that he had achieved all this by getting rid of the present "scanning" principle of television cameras. In translating an image into electrical impulses for broadcasting, the usual television camera "scans" the whole image in no fewer than 240,000 separate impressions. These are recorded separately, in series, all within the space of a 30th of a second. This requires intense lighting, considerable power, and such high speed in transmission that a television broadcast must use a wide band of wave frequencies, room for which can be found only in the high-frequency wave lengths...
...Buter's Sister (Universal) first appears with her back to the camera, walking through a train. As she passes, the faces of male passengers light up as if she were at worst an improvement on Botticelli's Venus. Then she turns around. She is Deanna Durbin, ready to burst into song at the tap of a baton...
Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy merged histrionic fireworks to plug the National War Fund in a crowded playlet entitled Untitled. More sacrificially, they also put their charms together in a line and bravely faced the candid cruelty of a news camera (see cut). Silver lining for the actresses was the local (Manhattan) record of the Women's Division of the Fund: gathered midway in a drive for $800,000, with less than 20% of the prospects called...
Paris operas, with their over lavish settings, are ideal meat for the color camera and although Nelson Eddy never was too appealing as an actor, he can roll that bartone of his. Claude Rains, of "Casablanca" fame, portrays the third violinist, and incidentally, the masked phantom. Eddy and the gondrame officer, Edward Barrier, put on a rather amusing and seemingly original Alphonse and Gaston performance at the mere presence of the budding opera star, Susanna Foster...