Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy squall struck the Bounty, swept away a water tank support, swamped the barge, spilled 25 technicians into the water. Assistant Director James Havens, in charge of the location unit, described how a cameraman named Glenn Strong drowned in the confusion that followed: "Strong went back to retrieve his camera which was on a superstructure. The superstructure collapsed, carrying him into the water with two others. His companions swam to safety. Strong clung to some timber for a time. But in the excitement, no one saw him go down...
...crushed by utterly ruinous taxes to pay Japan's bills for the impractical, grandiose conquest of too much of China (TIME, July 16, 1934). Once in office Premier Okada yielded to the exhibitionist bug which bites so many Japanese. He let himself be photographed with the crazy old camera and the prim old garden plants which are his hobbies (see cut). He also posed while a dentist filled one of his teeth, again while a barber clipped his almost bald head, and even in the act of putting on his shoes, not to mention countless poses of the Premier...
...About 1909, George Melies, a magician of the Theatre Robert Houdin in Paris, gave the motion picture new life by applying the camera to feats of magic using fade-outs, dissolves and double exposures...
...stevedore on the New Jersey docks opposite Manhattan. Finally he changed his name to No. 2796 on the North Bergen (N. J.) relief rolls last year. By unexpectedly knocking out a respectable opponent in a preliminary to the fight in which Max Baer knocked out ponderous Primo Camera and took the heavyweight championship (TIME, June 25, 1934), Jimmy Braddock managed to get back into his old profession. And by an equally unforeseen victory over Art Lasky, in whom the Garden management hoped to find a suitable match for Champion Baer. Jimmy Braddock himself was now about to have a crack...
...first store to install airconditioning, first to establish branches in the city's rich & regal suburbs where the Strawbridges and the Clothiers have long been socialites. It was first to adopt an efficiency filing system by which its 125,000 charge accounts are photographed with a motion picture camera and the films stored in a single cabinet. And last week Strawbridge & Clothier made national news with another innovation...