Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter the smashed sidewalk. Stinking human garbage (the street-cleaners have...
...MARCH OF TIME'S Cameraman Harrison Forman, an aviator, explorer and author just down from Tibet, was sitting inside the Cathay when the terrifying explosion took place. The Hearst News of the Day's, Shanghai man, a daredevil called "Newsreel" Wong, was behind the counter of his camera shop, two blocks away. Universal's, George Krainukov, who had just had his camera shot out of his hand in the Chinese evacuation of Peiping, was also almost within hailing distance of the tragedy. As a consequence, the films these three got of the Cathay-Palace Hotel tragedy-most...
...there was a prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...
...Major Stevens' plates clearly show a perfectly even corona surrounding the sun, at a depth considerably greater than the diameter of the body. His photographs include eleven pictures with a 24-inch camera, four pictures with an 8 1/4-inch camera, and 150 feet of motion picture film made with a 6-inch lens...
...women of Hollywood have, by and large, never dressed for each other or for men, but for the camera, which makes more extravagant demands than either. Result is that many a smart cinemagoer is as likely as not to snigger at the West Coast's idea of haute couture. The greater credit, therefore, to producer Walter Wanger that in building a show on women's styles, he managed to make the styles sufficiently sound to be featured in a recent issue of Vogue magazine. Taking their cue from those unsung, expert, wholesale dress manufacturers of Manhattan...