Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, nature-lovers and gunners who had hitherto spent their energies fighting each other agreed to get together and fight for wildlife. Sinking their crotchets in a temporary General Wildlife Federation, they chose "Ding" for temporary president. Then they went home to enlist women's clubs, garden clubs, camera clubs, Audubon societies and sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with some 3,000,000 members. Already they had secured enough State conservation legislation to make Founder Darling feel that...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
...Duke and make an offer as fabulous as it was vulgar, the present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What happened in the most important instant of the race was best recorded, not by a reporter, but by the $50,000 electric camera at the finish. It clicked when Mrs. C. S. Howard's Seabiscuit, who had led the field coming into the stretch, and William du Pont's Rosemont, who had come up fast in the last furlong, went under the wire together. Developed two minutes later, the photograph showed Rosemont...
When George Lyman Kittredge stalked jauntily out of Harvard 6 one mild May morning last spring, crowds collected to stamp and cheer, and many an official camera snapped busily. For more than a generation Mr. Kittredge had brought Shakspere to Harvard men, stripping the peet of four centuries' integument of other people's criticism, and clothing him in the vestments of that royal Elizabethan age in which he lived. So crowds gathered to honor the passing, with Mr. Kittredge's retirement, of a great Harvard tradition-English...