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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entitled "John Harvard's Tercentenary," the review will contain over 150 pictures selected from the great number of excellent camera shots taken by the Harvard Film Service and by private persons, showing notable individuals and incidents of those days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERCENTENARY REVIEW TO APPEAR NEXT MONTH | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

...forgotten the uses of photoelectric cells. Patent No. 2,058,562, it appeared, had been issued to Dr. Albert Einstein and Gustav Bucky. Manhattan X-ray researcher, for an automatic device to prevent unskilled photographers from under-or over-exposing their plates.* A photoelectric cell attached to the camera measures the quantity of illumination available, adjusts a screen of varying transparency so that the proper amount of light is admitted to the lens when the shutter is operated. Cornered by newshawks in Princeton, Dr. Einstein was embarrassed, reticent. Snapped Dr. Bucky in Manhattan: ''A man must have some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Private Corner | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...yellow." Moe says, "So are canary birds, but who's afraid of canary birds? Well?" The trade completed, Marcus remarks that the weather is ''darker than one of these here epileptic days," drifts on to trade the fountain pens to his friend Meyer Cohen. Offered a camera, Marcus declaims: "I am full of the devil today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pawn Paper | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...extra for UFA. Her first turn of fortune came when she met Rudolf Sieber, a blond, stocky assistant director. He picked her out of a mob scene and gave her a lorgnette. The lorgnette made what is known as a "halation"-a spot of light reflected upon the camera lens and magnified. Nowadays cameramen watch scenes for halation. When they find them they blur the bright spot with putty or paint or move a light to avoid the reflection. No putty was daubed on Dietrich's lorgnette. It attracted attention to her. In the next picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...been at two previous openings she attended. Film technicians speak of her knowledge of photography. On the set, she is good-humored, assiduous. In Knight Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back in the tub (see cut). During the production of The Garden of Allah she could tell whether the take would be good or bad by the intensity of the light on her face. She tested personally her dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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