Word: camera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny photo lab into the auditorium dressing room. Soon "Bach's Boys" were rushing about, shoving big black boxes in students' faces and yelling, "Hold it!" Other teachers were shocked at Bach's brand of pedagogy: he encouraged playing hooky on sunny days-with a camera. "Go get the picture," he would say. Bach badgered officials into buying extra film, gave his budding photographers more than most daily newspapers allow their regulars. He ceaselessly sent his boys to football and basketball games to get realistic pictures (blur was just fine) and warned: "Don't bring back...
...ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms, a boy's confidence soared...
Edwin H. Land, industrialist, inventor of Polaroid Land camera, president, Polaroid Corp..................................................................... Sc.D...
...overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington Jr. Now 29, he came to TV via Fordham, the U.S.A.F. and the NBC mailroom. Off camera, he speaks unadulterated American...
...Army has ordered a device that will print photographs on the ground moments after they are taken by a reconnaissance plane in the air. Made by Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp., the airborne unit is basically an instant-processing device, which produces negatives seconds after the camera's shutter has clicked, and a telemetry scanner, which transmits the negative to the ground-all contained in a 45-lb. package about the size of two shoe boxes. The ground unit picks up the televised signal, produces a finished photograph in less than one minute after the signal is received...