Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES-Ed-mund Wilson-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Records like Mark Sullivan's Our Times are valuable, as any competently edited newsreel is valuable. But, mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may not be misleading but it often leads nowhere. The widespread popularity of such subjective photography as Walter Duranty's I Write As I Please, Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's Inside Europe, Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor are strong indications that...
Lorentz and his crew filmed grass, cattle, dust in half a dozen western States, wound up in California. Farmers performed easily before the camera, found nothing odd in re-enacting their personal tragedy. At one point Photographers Steiner, Strand and Hurwitz grew fretful because The Plow That Broke the Plains was not forceful enough. When they saw the finished job. however, they withdrew objections. By that time two more notable names were on the film's credit list, on the Federal payroll: Composer Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts), who provided a musical score, and Alexander Smallens...
...Brooklyn Democratic district leader, was let out on $5,000 bail. Miss Pavlick, newlywed and sobbing, was exonerated after the police satisfied themselves that her connection with the case had ended on receipt of the first $1,000. In Krone's apartment, searching police found a fingerprint camera, wiretapping set, a picture of one-time Governor Smith inscribed: "To my friend Mr. Krone, Alfred E. Smith...
...PreaknessStakes. Jockey Georgie Wolff held Bold Venture far back in the pack for more than half the distance, let Granville, who ran riderless in the Derby after dumping his jockey, set the pace. Their heads and legs were as one as they sped across the line. A camera-eye picture of the finish determined the victory which made Bold Venture the fifth horse ever to win both the Derby and the Preakness...
...different reason: she foolishly left hers in. later had to have them pulled by the doctor with crude instruments, without anesthetics. When they got to Floreana they found their carefully packed boxes did not contain several handy necessities. They took no gun, very few matches, no lamps, no camera. They intended to do a lot of reading and contemplating, but found they had little time for such things. Clearing the ground, building their "house" (an open-sided shack), working in their garden, fighting mosquitoes, cockroaches, grasshoppers, ants, marauding wild boars, wild dogs left them few waking moments...