Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardworking, conscientious President Coburn had his critics in the directorate. Some said he erred in his manufacturing policy. When, last year, youthful Sherman Mills Fairchild retrieved his Kreider-Reisner Aircraft Co. Inc. and aerial camera companies from Avco, the corporation retained the Fairchild airplane factory at Farmingdale, L. I. and proceeded to build a new single-engine mail-&-passenger plane called the Pilgrim. This manufacturing operation, said Mr. Coburn's critics, was extravagant. The plane, they said, is already obsolete. Others found fault with the president's insistence on burdening himself with detailed responsibility (by which he threatened...
...study of 10 photographs by Kilham of Rockefeller's new Radio city development shows that the camera can be made as sensitive to art as the human eye, and that there is a fine poetry in the clattering bigness of industrial activity which rivals the tranquility of classicism. Several of the photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered...
...Rochester, N. Y. He left a note: "My work is done. Why wait?'' Born in Waterville, N. Y. in 1854, he started Eastman Dry Plate Co. in Rochester in 1880. First man to realize the possibilities of amateur as opposed to professional photography, he devoted himself to making cameras simple, handy, foolproof. The first Kodak appeared in 1888, contained film for 100 pictures which, when taken, were sent back (camera & all) to the Kodak factory for development. Hence the famed slogan: "You press the button. We do the rest." The development of a flexible, transparent photographic film in 1889 coincided...
...colyum of Washington chit-chat in the Scripps-Howard newspapers Reporter George Abell told how Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon pointed his lens at a group of important Democrats jovially quaffing drinks in an anteroom at the Jackson Day dinner. Just as he snapped the shutter Dr. Salomon heard someone shout: "Hey, you can't take that picture!'' It was Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. Continued the Governor: ". . . But you can come in and have a drink...
...Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...