Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture, "Science and Experience." He dined with President & Mrs. Hutchins, met a few socialites, congratulated his fellow-scientist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton on the latter's appointment, announced from London last week, as next year's visiting professor at Oxford in the chair endowed by the late Cameraman George Eastman. He found time to motor out and visit his old friend Director Otto Struve of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis. With his early Cornell lectures already composed, the rest of the time he devoted to interviews, informal lectures...
...things happened almost simultaneously at Little America one morning last week. The Administration Building's gasoline tank shot up in flames and Cameraman Joseph A. Pelter keeled over with a sharp pain in his side. "My surgical instruments!" cried Dr. Louis H. Potaka. "Under the tank...
Four Byrdmen tossed fire bombs into the flames while the doctor rescued his kit. The fire died. Dr. Potaka stretched Cameraman Pelter on a table, sliced out his appendix. Badly inflamed, it would have burst by afternoon. A long convalescence was ahead of Joseph Pelter. No matter how warm the patient is kept, said Dr. Potaka, a wound heals slowly in frigid Antartica...
...presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend the movie merely on the performance of Fred Astaire who has finally been focused by the cameraman, (you will recall that he lost when he played with Joan Crawford in "Dancing Lady") and because the music is unusually stimulating and fresh...
...seasons for whale, walrus and caribou are the same but Alaskan Eskimos hunt them in different places. Director Van Dyke hustled from one hunting ground to another by plane. Mala is an Eskimo but not a wild one. He turned up two years ago in Hollywood to be a cameraman, joined the Van Dyke expedition as guide, photographed so well that Van Dyke decided to make him the hero. Most of the whites in the cast are members of Van Dyke's technical crew. The fur-trader is Peter Freuchen, who wrote the book on which Eskimo is based...