Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera work is done on a part-time basis by Lewis...
...took over its management in 1901, is now sole owner. Dr. Cook's cluster of green-&-white observatory buildings contain equipment worth $100,000, represent a total investment of $200,000. Last summer, at a cost of some $9,000, he acquired the world's biggest star camera, weighing more than two tons. It has a 61-in. lens, takes pictures...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...
Action on the matter was only obtained after publication of a photograph of an attempted robbery in the building. The picture was snapped by a CRIMSON staff camera put into operation by the thief as he attempted to force an entrance. This goaded officials into quick action...
Eight years earlier but more advanced in technique was "The Great Train Robbery," genesis of all wild westerns. For the first time the possibilities of the camera are exploited and it is allowed to move about and follow the characters' actions. This was one of those first films where some audiences were known to get up and run from in front when a train was seen approaching...