Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House cameramen, Press Secretary Steve Early announced that in future no candid camera pictures of the President would be permitted. Reason: at the opening of the baseball season the President had to take great pains not to let a cameraman catch him popping peanuts into his mouth, was caught nonetheless and for several days the White House was besieged with letters saying that it was not dignified for the President to eat peanuts...
...Devil Is a Woman (Paramount). Marlene Dietrich is one of the most beautiful and dynamic actresses in Hollywood. Director Josef von Sternberg is an eccentric specialist who enjoys filling his camera lens with shadows, antique furniture, objects d'art and confetti. To most observers, these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made...
...enthusiastic German photographer named Oskar Barnack designed for his own use a camera small enough to slip easily into a pocket, yet as accurate as any hulking news camera made. It used cinema film. Nothing happened till the War was over, then manufacture started under the trade name of Leica. Since then Photographer Barnack's pocket camera has become one of the best known precision cameras in the world. With the special lenses that have been ground to fit in, the Leica (and approximately six similar miniature cameras of rival manufacturers) has profoundly affected the entire field of photography...
...last week to see what experts could do with their minicams. All of the 300 prints on view were enlarged and unretouched from the original postage stamp negatives. They represented the work of 25 photographers, ranging from socialite amateurs to Professional Photographer Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington, whose candid-camera shots of President Roosevelt (on ammonia-sensitized film) first appeared in TIME two months...
...briefly in Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary, was the only girl at a small English school for boys. She ran her own night club for a while, did a turn in Chariot's Revue, is a candid camera addict and while in Hollywood wanders around streets and byways taking pictures of interesting dogs, horses and persons...