Word: cameraful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
...note to Moscow explaining the Navy's action, but not apologizing for it. As far as the U.S. was concerned, the incident was closed, but the Russians were on notice that the U.S. was keeping close watch on the Soviets' radar-packed trawlers and their omnipresent, camera-toting commissars...
When the average Hollywood magnate decides to make a picture, he rounds up a million dollars or so, mounts his curved-screen camera, and hires a host of stars. Several years later, the technicolor epic will, he hopes, draw enough people away from their 21 inch screens to pay the tremendous production costs. To put it mildly, motion pictures are big business, from Producer on down to Assistant Continuity...
...unusual, then, that seven years ago a young commercial artist in Calcutta pawned his wife's jewels to rent a creaking, out-of-date movie camera. With a few of his actor-friends, Satyajit Ray left Calcutta one Sunday for an isolated village to the north. In that village, without building a single set or even clearing the yard, where much of the action takes place, he began filming Pather Panchali ("Song of the Road"). It was the first time he had ever operated a camera...
Satyajit Ray also turns his rented camera on pastoral symbolism, but it seems unconscious symbolism--a tribute to his art. Water flies darting on a pond, water lilies lifting wildly in a sudden gale, warm monsoon rain spattering on the attractive face of young Durga--these are scenes of compelling subtlety and beauty...