Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brothers (Columbia). The play of the same name was designed as a vehicle for Bert Lytell's return to the Manhattan stage last year and had a good run. It is better as a picture than it was as a play because the mechanics of the modern camera help Bert Lytell to play his dual role of twin orphans-one adopted by a family of wealth, the other by a washwoman. Instead of making a quick trip offstage before coming on as the older brother, he now looks at himself, argues with himself, hits himself, picks himself up, carries...
...Here an enterprising cameraman from International News Service slipped into the theatre to get Actress Barrymore's picture. He was caught, thrown out. Likewise in Kansas City an I. N. S. photographer was discovered, evicted. In Minneapolis no attempt was made, but last fortnight at Detroit a Candid Camera clicked twice, one clear photograph resulted...
...audience that the invention is known as the "scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much the same way that a camera lens sets the image of an object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted...
...Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk in Rio!"-and they...
...play whose principal sets are laid in the Caliph's harem in Bagdad has been done to Kismet, except one ? there is no color. That, from an industrial point of view, is important and interesting, for every sequence might have been built for a color-camera. The Warners have decided that in spite of its tremendous cost color brought in nothing at the box office; for the time being they have stopped using it. The only remaining element that might give interest to Kismet is the able performance of 72-year-old Otis Skinner in the role he first...