Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this secret business first showed in the pages of the Chicago Tribune. Last month it appeared in Hearst's Detroit Times. Last week it landed in the Detroit Free Press. The secret: sharp "stop-action" strip pictures of fast-moving objects. Each newspaper was working with its own camera invention, was still secretive about details. But enough facts had leaked out to indicate that a new action-picture vogue was about to spread through the U. S. Press...
Chicago Tribune first jolted its readers with remarkably clear continuity pictures of Golden Gloves boxers in action, followed with a strip of Pitcher Dizzy Dean from windup to finish. Cameraddicts knew that no ordinary motion picture film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
Detroit Times's camera chief is a squat, red-thatched pugnacious Hearstling named Jimmy Northmore. For 20 of his 42 years he has worked for Hearst, boasts that the opposition has never beaten him. Twelve years ago, he says, he had the idea for a fast working camera but did nothing about it until he saw the Tribune's strips. Then he buttonholed the Times's Editor-in-Chief Albert E. Dale, offered to produce a camera that would match the Tribune's pictures for some $900. He closeted himself in his laboratory for three weeks...
Detroit Free Press made its fast-camera debut last week, also with strips of runners and jumpers at last fortnight's Western Conference Track Meet at Ann Arbor, Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
Near Miacatlan on a tour of Mexico with his fiancée, Ellen Mary Byron Gloor of Manhattan, Otto Kym came upon Miss Gloor struggling in the arms of their native chauffeur, Aloises Lopez. Kym focused his movie camera, shot the scene, turned Lopez and the film over to police...