Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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African Holiday. In 1935 Harry C. Pearson, a onetime Chicago insurance-man, took his wife and camera to Central Africa, trekked 11,000 miles through the jungle. A plotless safari, the Pearson film record lavishes hazy shots of cheetahs, lions, tigers, giraffes, antelopes, elephants, hippopotamuses, assorted naked savages, waving grass. Goriest scenes are young Masai tribesmen sucking up the blood of a dead bullock, black coolies scooping out elephant feet to make wastebaskets for the U.S. market. Cinematic Afrophiles will relish the rare, sleek okapi, a herd of sunbathing hippos, the giant Latukas whose hunters tower seven feet tall...
...photographs neglected to make clear to newspaper readers, who got from them the notion that U. S. fancy-diving was becoming fancier than ever, was what Diver Jump did with her weapons after being photographed with them. The bow & arrow were wired together. The click of the camera was Diver Jump's signal to drop them. By no means a novelty, the "Diana Dive" was invented by Photographer Powell in 1932, when he had Diver Georgia Coleman perform it to publicize the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles...
Seattle householders were plagued and puzzled by a thief who opened their milk bottles early in the morning, stole the cream, left skimmed milk. Garageman Kenneth Short set out to catch the culprit in a camera trap. Having read in LIFE, Jan. 18, of a similar device, Sleuth Short one day last week connected his camera's shutter with the bottle's cap by a wire through a milk-proof tube. Next day he had a fine picture of the thief-a sleek, fat, impudent blue jay. Subsequent spying revealed that a flock of less gifted jays followed...
...actual session, and the only one showing the Justices in their new chamber. The other, taken five years ago by Dr. Erich Salomon, made its first appearance in TIME Inc. publications as does this, taken last month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced shooting from the hip, without using the camera's finder which was inside the purse, before achieving this result...
...Claude Binyon's adaptation, it covers the subject of playing in the snow as thoroughly as an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, and to much better effect as entertainment. For the huge white panels of snow-covered mountains against which the Swiss sequences in the story are outlined by the camera, Director Wesley Ruggles took his whole cast and crew of 250 not to the Alps but to Sun Valley. Idaho. There, in a fold of the hills eleven miles from Union Pacific's famed new Sun Valley Lodge, he built an exact duplicate of a Swiss village, including...