Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover might never have allowed Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") 'Salomon in the White House if Premier Pierre Laval of France had not politely insisted. Like Benito Mussolini, Ramsay MacDonald and Chancellor Heinrich Briming, Premier Laval has become convinced that Dr. Salomon's unposed, spontaneous snapshots are historic human documents to be preserved for posterity and schoolbooks. FORTUNE brought Dr. Salomon to the U. S., sent him to Washington to take pictures of the Hoover-Laval Conference...
...beyond. The director does not seem to trust the audience to understand what is going on merely by a series of flashes. He will portray a man crossing a field, not as in an American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls "Bodlly Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage." The third is a desire to show depth of motif and subtlety of handling...
...Still another method is to take the separate views through light-polarizing camera lenses, throwing the combined scene on a special, non-diffusing screen, and viewing it with special glasses. This method too is impractical...
...glasses or effort for the observer. He calls it "parallax panoramagram." An object is photographed from many points of view through a grating. The grating deflects and breaks up the image on the negative. The positive print is a blur unless viewed through a grating the duplicate of the camera's. Still pictures made and scanned this way are brilliantly realistic...
...were on tour of various industrial research laboratories and had stopped at George Eastman's kodak plant for Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees to take their pictures in the dark. The room they posed in was flooded with infra-red light from an airtight, light-tight cabinet. A camera was loaded with a proper plate. The camera clicked a one-second exposure. The lights went on. While the businessmen blinked their eyes and chatted, photographers developed the plate, made prints. Fifteen minutes later the businessmen could see themselves as no man had ever seen them, the way they looked...