Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashioned stereoscope does what the living eyes do. A camera with two lenses makes two slightly different pictures. The pictures are carefully mounted side by side on a card which is placed before a pair of lenses fixed on a frame. The left lens shows only the left picture to the left eye; the right lens only the right picture to the right eye. The brain combines the pictures as solid effects...
Perhaps there is less of artistry, but whatever with modesty has been attempted has with deftness been accomplished. There is never a straining after effect. There are no steep camera angles, no fog-shrouded skylines, no philosophical implications. And yet by means of a shifting background of figures, director Borzage has surrounded his isolated principals, absorbed in their own affairs, with the reality of city life. Up and down the tenement stairs pass these people -- a drunk, piloting himself upward with splendid balance, and a street-walker hurrying to receive a caller, while below a gray-faced little woman phones...
...hours later than usual in the evening. In Detroit, young women dressed in the manner of cinematic French peasantry served doughnuts in a model French village. Mascot gila monsters, rattlesnakes, burros, skunks were displayed all over town. One man had his eye knocked out playing with a trick camera. Three hundred and fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto...
Left behind on the ranch, but to leave there in November or December with their collection of animals caged for U. S. zoos, were Alexander Siemel, chief animal man, who has recovered from an alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition...
...body. It . . . encompassed the whole Collings mystery story. It was a picture of murder and the forces of society at work attempting to unravel the mystery. . . . "As to the matter of theft ... the Times would count any photographer on its staff a total loss who folded his camera and went home merely because some one told him not to make a picture. The Times is a funny old bat of a sheet, anyhow...