Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surrender (Fox). In Surrender Director William K. Howard takes his camera into a German castle, shows what happened there during the War. The owner, a German count approaching dotage, plays with toy soldiers. The castle is near a prison camp run by a captain who wears a black bandage over one side of his face, who blows his brains out when the War is over. The most pleasant thing that happens is a love affair between a French prisoner (Warner Baxter) and the fiancee of the count's son (Leila Hyams). This nearly turns out badly. Baxter tries...
...Fradd is the author of several articles bearing on health and efficiency and is the inventor of the silhouetteo-graph, the camera-like machine for graphing posture, with which undergraduates are familiar...
...whose owner was watching the mice broke away, snarled once at the mice, then dashed off in the opposite direction, startling a turtle, annoying a tiger cub, distracting the attention of an elderly man watching the goldfish. A pelican, taken from its cage to pose for a news-camera, wandered over to the fish exhibition and was diving for one of the lion-headed goldfish when interrupted by a goldfish gillie. One of Exhibitor Donald S. Crowe's bear cubs became ill from an ice cream cone, recovered. A stray dog was nipped by a Pekingese. A race between...
...exhibition not only has what is reputed to be the largest, most elaborate opening in the world, but also that it pays its prizewinners the richest rewards in the U. S.: $7,500. Last week U. S. museum directors were startled to learn how an amateur with a pocket camera could win $16,500 in art prizes by one snap of his shutter...
...subsidiaries of the U. S. Eastman Kodak Co. had contributed over $100,000 in prizes. Rules: 1) Competitors must be amateurs in fact; no member of their families could be professional photographers. 2) Pictures must be taken during the four months of the contest. 3) Any camera or photographic material could be used. 4) Pictures could be no larger than eight inches square, none could be colored. Nearly 3,000,000 pictures were submitted. Finals narrowed down to 282 entries from 47 countries. Cotton Worker Powell won the British national prize of $5,000 and an additional class award...