Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Candid camera shots at Brussels showed last week (see cut) that British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
Early in this text-&-camera picture of contemporary life in the cotton States. Erskine Caldwell observes: "The South has always been shoved around like a country cousin. It buys mill-ends and wears hand-me-downs. ... It is that dogtown on the other side of the railroad tracks that smells so badly every time I he wind changes." Mindful of the "bad smells"* that have come from the South recently, and with an avowed pro-underdog bias. Author Caldwell and Photographer Bourke-White went down to look things over. After a year and a half of investigation they returned with...
...Investigators Bourke -White and Caldwell admittedly focused their attention and their camera on the poor-white and shanty-nigger side of Southern life, thus present a picture heavily weighted with misery, unrelieved by contrasting views of more prosperous levels. They lay themselves open to charges by patriotic Southerners that a similar investigation of lower-stratum existence in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, might produce equally humiliating results. Meanwhile, You Have Seen Their Faces stands as eye-witness evidence that there are indeed many U. S. citizens ill-clad, ill-nourished and ill-housed...
...most brilliant shots of all follow: those of the academic procession coming out of Widener and passing down the center aisle within a few feet of the camera. Just as the French delegation comes within view the procession has to stop, so there are some excellent close-ups of their colored robes...
...independent exhibitors, the big companies having turned thumbs down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came the disastrous flood of last winter. Lorentz and his crew stayed in the flood area until Feb. 24, shot 80,000 feet of film. Only a few hundred feet were used in the picture; the rest went to the Department of Agriculture archives...