Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where this particular color story took a different turn. To their surprise, the editors found that Reporter Guzzardi's pictures had no technical faults, were as good as any specialist could be expected to take. No professional photographer, Guzzardi reported that he had used a seven-year-old camera. His three pages of color pictures are an amateur's professional triumph...
...exhibition in Sokolniki Park, posed for pictures with the gold-colored dome of the central building gleaming in the background, then set off on a tour of the exhibits. They paused to test new TV equipment that enabled them to speak in front of a TV camera and then, right afterwards, to see themselves on a TV screen and hear a tape playback of their voices. As the camera turned his way, Khrushchev, wearing his floppy straw hat, looked sour. Said Nixon: "You look quite angry, as if you wanted to fight." It soon came out that Khrushchev was still...
...Today's typical Capri visitor is not the Roman princeling or wealthy foreign eccentric of old; far more often, he is the earnest German tourist who has come over just for the day on the ferry from Naples (fare: 70?) wearing only shorts and sandals, carrying only a camera and a lunch box. And to meet the taste of the new invaders, the Capresi have converted the once-charming fishing village of Marina Grande into a boardwalk displaying cheap religious bibelots and tinny music boxes that wheeze out the saccharine strains of The Isle...
...pauses when the demolition man draws the cables taut as delicately as if he were landing a poorly hooked fish. There is the drawn-out moment when a seemingly defused bomb reveals a second fuse and blows a man to bits. And through it all, Director Aldrich deploys his camera like a melancholy tourist over the desolate Berlin ruins. As drama, Ten Seconds is something of a dud; as melodrama, it ticks like an activated blockbuster...
...Five Pennies (Dena; Paramount). The basic trouble with movie biographies of famed jazz musicians is that the camera is not a horn. What matters about the average music man is the music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have...