Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Getting clown to brass tacks in Harar last week, New York Times's candid Harold Denny cabled: "The exodus of disappointed 'war correspondents' and camera men from Ethiopia is now well under way after one of the greatest and most expensive flops in journalistic and newsreel history. . . . The Ethiopians have an unmatched talent for procrastination-they dislike doing anything today which possibly can be put off. "The result has been that a hundred or more correspondents and camera men are gnawing their fingernails at Addis Ababa, Harar and Dire Dawa knowing less about the fighting they...
...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
...gang of onetime Long bodyguards leaped to the attack. In the District Attorney's office one of them cornered Associated Press Photographer Leon Trice, who was once knocked unconscious on Huey Long's command, smashed his camera, was commencing to smash him when a little, old U. S. marshal drove him off. In a corridor Colonel Shushan & friends met the other offenders...
...Gulliver (Amkino) contains what is probably the most extraordinary cast ever seen in cinema: 3,000 puppets. Made of clay, rubber, metal, wood and cloth, specially designed to act for the camera, they are operated not by strings like ordinary marionettes but by invisible human hands which change the puppets' positions and expressions between each film exposure. It took 25 separate shots, for example, to show a puppet raising his arm. This process gives their activities the staccato quality of a Walt Disney cartoon but it is by no means their principal claim to distinction. Representing the population...
Winners in the camera class were Frederick M. Miller '37 with his enlargement "Leaves", Gabriel S. Welsman '36 for "The Tower", while honorable mention went to Weisman and to Spencer B. Fulweiler...