Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographic portraits, a thing never attempted before with much success have been raised to a new standard under the camera of such men and women as Doris Ulmann or Herman Lerski of Germany...
...They had their lenses focussed on the President to snap him as he autographed book for War veterans' benefit. The Picture of the Century-the assassination -occurred at that moment. Bearded Louis Piston, who has been photographing celebrities around Paris for 45 years, dropped his flash, swung his camera overhead, clubbed Assassin Gorgulov with it. Photographer Piston got no picture. Last week it became known that he had been elevated to the Legion of Honor. U. S. newsphotographers are notoriously less polite than Europeans. Ambushed behind furniture, down dark passageways, at turns of staircases, a corps of them...
...created in the play by keeping the 6000 horsepower rain-making machines going at top speed all the time, is essentially, to laugh. It rains so hard during much of the film that the actors can hardly be seen, and yet when the acting in at its height, the camera man deserts the stage and uses up much of the Company's film in taking pictures of rain drops, and rain clouds, and often of sheets of rain which could only have been caused by a washout in some overtaxed rain shower machine. After all it does rain in Wisconsin...
...cost of tickets and the usual big overhead may be interested to know that they can see this afternoon's struggle between the 150-pounders for the delightfully pro-war price of 50 cents. Although no brass band will form letters between the halves and no movie camera will record the affair for posterity, the bantam-weights are expected to give their all. In other words, it looks like a regular, old-fashioned, back lot game of football...
Author Price takes pains to emphasize that there will always be an abundance of expert work requiring skilled cameramen. But a camera-equipped newshawk is prepared to snap the unexpected. Also he has a distinct advantage of entreé. A hostile subject who has thawed to a reporter's interview may let him snap a picture, although he would freeze again at sight of a photographer's tripod and plate-box. In many cases the cameraman, boldly marked with the badge of his trade, is barred at gates where the newsman, with camera concealed, may saunter...