Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austin of Los Angeles invented a camera which, by changing the lens alignment, makes six small exposures on a single plate. It was awarded the loving cup for the most valuable invention of the exhibit, but attracted little attention from the 39,000 visitors to the Congress...
...heroine was a Japanese girl making a doll as a birthday present for a friend. Pictorial values, backgrounds of the Japanese countryside in spring, and the delicate grain which Cinematographer Okamoto had achieved gave his film distinction. Both winners last week used 8 mm. film. Clardy's camera was an Eastman No. 60 with an 1-1.9 lens. Okamoto used the cheapest Cine Kodak Eight made, model No. 20, which cost...
...barber's lather-bowl which he thinks is a helmet; the whirling windmills seen from a dozen different angles after the poor Don is impaled on one of them by his own spear. Notable is the picture's end. Off-screen Chaliapin sings morosely, while the camera catches pattern after pattern in the twisting, writhing pages of his burning books. Here Is My Heart (Paramount). Cinemaddicts who remember that brilliant picture, The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, in which Adolphe Menjou performed...
...portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint is a Flint school of artists led by Jaroslav Brozik which applies...
...confused with drug-store novelized editions of cinemas. The Mighty Barnum is the first film script published and sold as a book. Price: $2.00. It is complete with stage directions, camera & sound details, author's notes. Sample scene, at P. T. Barnum's disastrous banquet to Singer Jenny Lind...