Word: camera
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...Wednesday afternoon, nearly 80 reporters,camera operators and photographers converged onRadcliffe Yard as a slightly smaller number ofprotesters outside Byerly Hall demanded thatHarvard re-examine its decision...
There are many reasons Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" (1941) is widely regarded to be the greatest film of all time. To watch it is to relive your favorite cinema moments; every scene, every plot turn, every camera angle has influenced countless filmmakers. But the pleasure of watching, or rewatching, "Citizen Kane" is not derived solely from an appreciation of its technique. The greatest films tell great stories, and Kane's, like that of Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," is an absorbing tale of ambition and loss...
Though Holden and von Stroheim are powerful foils to Swanson's persona, Wilder and his camera wisely sweep them to the edges of the screen to focus on Norma. Swanson's performance is something beyond acting; her Norma lives every moment on two planes, in the mundane world and on celluloid. She has a habit of pausing almost unnoticeably as she speaks, giving the effect of a flickering silent film, posing briefly for the camera, then continuing...
...Wilder's camera is generous to Swanson, playing with the copious material she gives him to create confusion between light and shadow, cinema and life. The camera chills, not only with beautiful photography, but with inspired editing which creates a dialogue of images, blending forms from one scene subtly into another...
...computers. Shortly after her appointment as archives manager, Felsher took action. "We were losing a lot of history," she says. She took a class in oral history at Columbia University, then began targeting people whose recollections she wanted to preserve on audiocassettes. Later, she conducted interviews with a video camera. "It takes a lot of nerve to interview a journalist," she says...