Word: camera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...submarine moved easily and rapidly through the quiet depths, its reactor-driven geared turbines purring, its coffeepots perking, its jukebox playing, its 116-man crew caught up with an unusual sense of excitement. On the submarine's closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the White House...
...Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long-lens camera, wiretap recorder, pocket mikes, etc.-to sleuth on any citizen suspected of disagreeing with white-supremacy dogma. Finding Georgia too small for his ambition, he got authority to spend taxpayer money publicizing racial conditions all over the U.S. Hammering his stock line that integration of the races is a Communist plot...
Eleven years ago Los Angeles' enterprising KTLA mounted a mobile TV camera, began offering its viewers on-the-spot coverage of major news events. Among them: atom bomb explosions on Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
...telecopier" represented three years of planning and experimentation. The 2,000-lb. weight of a standard camera and transmitter would require a helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking...
...book, Author Remarque swapped the communiqué quiet of the Western Front for the incessant noise of the Eastern Front in World War II, and Director Douglas Sirk has turned a true camera eye on the bleak grey vista of the once-proud German army in shattered retreat, its beaten soldiers yearning only for a hunk of bread and a hole in which to hide from the Russian artillery. But somebody forgot that there was a war on: the hero (John Gavin), a dutiful Wehrmacht private, gets a three-week furlough back to Germany, and from there on, the movie...