Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trade Winds (Walter Wanger-United Artists). On Nov. 24, 1935, Director Tay Garnett sailed from Los Angeles in the yacht Athene. With him he took a camera crew, a complete film laboratory. His object: a 50,000-mile round-the-world cruise to gather material for his next picture. Last week, when the result of his expedition was released as Trade Winds, audiences expected that, as a travelogue, it might be a pleasant surprise...
...England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about him. Said she: "There is a work of purification to be done in the use of camera, and Len Lye's existing films hint at some of the ways in which it may be done...
Last summer death passed across television's little screen for the first time when NBC's Iconoscope camera accidentally focused on a girl's falling body, followed it six stories to the sidewalk in front of Manhattan's TIME & LIFE Building. Last week NBC's television mobile unit went to the bank of New York City's East River to televise a swimming pool. When the engineer saw fire break out in an abandoned U. S. Army barracks on Wards Island, he swung his camera around, caught and sent through the air television...
Early this morning thieves broke into Claus Gelotte's camera store at 1290 Massachusetts Avenue, smashing a plate glass window and taking a $350 camera...
...from being camera shy, the Dionnes seem a shade jaded by acting. One or two of them usually appear to be dreaming. The others engage in deplorably obvious scene stealing, from each other as well as the adults in the cast. The Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling...