Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been patented and he did not disclose exact technical details. But film executives who viewed his work pronounced it good. Heart of the device is a prism composed of two paper-thin sheets of glass fitted together at a 45° angle. This is inserted behind the camera's lens, works something like the binocular vision of human eyes. The illusion of roundness goes onto the film so that no special projector equipment is necessary and spectators do not have to wear stereoscopic glasses...
...window in the office of Girl Scouts, Inc., on the eleventh floor of the TIME & LIFE Building, Manhattan. And television cut another notch in its growing list of achievements. Conducting outdoor television tests in Rockefeller Center's Plaza, NBC's Iconoscope Cameraman Ross Plaisted was shifting his camera's focus when he caught the girl's falling body at the sixth floor, followed it to the ground. The telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room. While the camera was turning, the engineers were...
Last week, Captain Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North...
...writings of Dane Coolidge have something of the flavor of an oldtimer's leisurely talk, in which personal reminiscences, anecdotes and tall tales are intermingled. A photographer of wild life long before candid cameras were invented, Coolidge wandered over Southwestern deserts, had the wit to pass up wild animals occasionally and photograph wild human beings instead. In 1903. when he was 30, his wanderings took him into the cattle country northeast of the Salt River Valley of Arizona, where he picked up some good stories, some better photographs. Arizona Cowboys is a belated record of his stay, a book...
...love for Germany, another in which a rich Jew refrained from cheating three young gentiles, a scene in which famed books, including Remarque's, were burned by Nazis. Hays office censorship left none of these scenes in the finished picture. Much political content is removed by a camera shot of a blowing newspaper dated October 1920, still more by removal of all definite party labels. What is left is a love story, beautifully told and consummately acted, but so drenched in hopelessness and heavy with the aroma of death, of wasted youth in a world of foggy shapes...