Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music hall styled after an interior view of a bunch of bananas, the white-haired pianist who once ruled his native Poland blinks out upon a parquet stage, bows to an effete-looking audience, sits down to play. The camera closes up, revealing a white, death-mask face, eyes shut against the world (and against the World's Fair interior around him), a sparse mustache scraggling over a pursed-up mouth that twitches with tic-like regularity...
...almost 20 minutes he plays through a Chopin Polonaise and Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, the camera returns again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as an encore the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Later, over the brandies, one of those inevitable cough & spit drawing-room pundits quizzes the old maestro on what seemed to him an extraordinary departure from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what...
...been viewed, the freckled face of Tommy Kelly of the Bronx was selected as that bearing closest resemblance to the public's conception of Mr. Clemens' hero. Although such old-timers as Walter Brennan and May Robson lend adult support, all of the minors are new to the camera and act with that unaffected naturalness that Norman Taurog's directing brings out. The picture is in Technicolor...
Observations with high-speed camera and photoelectric cell show that an expert golfer may swing his club head as fast as 125 m.p.h. At such velocities air resistance becomes a considerable factor. At the American Physical Society's convention in Washington last week, Physicist Sylvan Jay Crooker of Purcellville, Va. reported that air resistance may be diminished fifteenfold by scientific streamlining of the club head, the shape (except for the face of the club) conforming to airship hull contours tested in wind tunnels. Declared Dr. Crooker: "Dynamic and ballistic analyses, checked by field tests, prove the low-resistance [streamlined...
...wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera. Bing Crosby provides an innocuous background, giving repeated versions of "On the Sentimental Side," but the laurels belong to Andy Devine, who as Policeman O'Roon with boisterous diligence, stamps on crime...