Word: camera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early Tuesday morning the pages of this issue were set up in type in Philadelphia. A camera crew was on hand to make photo graphic negatives of each page as fast as the last proofs could be corrected. A 39-ounce packet of these films is rushed aboard the first transcontinental plane. And with any kind of luck in the weather, by early Thursday morning our printers in Honolulu should have received the negatives and be at work making the press plates to run off the edition by offset lithography...
...Rome he looked on contemptuously, offered to clean them up. He had opposed Mussolini's war against Greece, had become the scapegoat for the abject Fascist failure there. He had sided with high Italians who resented the alliance with Hitler and the swelling Nazi arrogance in Italy. The camera's eye had once caught him, alone and defiant among a group of officers, declining to follow the Duce in the Fascist salute (see cut). Yet, since 1936, he had been a member of the Fascist Party. He had acted as the unofficial leader of its right wing...
Slave of the Senses. Pola's first starring role was in Love and Passion (or Slave of the Senses'), which she wrote, directed, and produced herself with a secondhand movie camera in her own Warsaw apartment. Pola claims that the picture so interested Max Reinhardt that he brought her to Germany in 1917. She achieved stardom overnight in Carmen and Passion (with Emil Jannings...
Winston Churchill, having ceremonially received the "freedom of the city" at London's Guildhall, saluted a crowd with his familiar topper-twirling gesture, was caught by the camera in close resemblance to William Claude Dukinfield (W. C. Fields...
...right leg nearly severed. The pilot shouted to the bombardier to forget the bombs, but he leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine, put a tourniquet on his leg, nursed him safely back to base...