Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acute. Their need of metal can be staved off for a time." . . . Kermit Roosevelt Jr., 18, found Russia "dirty and buggy." . . . Fannie Hurst thanked God "that we are not a singing country yet." . . . Grand Duchess Marie said she was going to be a commercial photographer but had lost her camera. . . . Peggy Hopkins Joyce raged that she was not about to make Peppy D'Albrew her sixth husband...
...pictures of sporty females. All keep sharp guard against "lens-lice"? nonentities who try to force their way into a picture. To get rid of a pest a photographer may have to "French it"?pretend to take a picture, but without a plate in the camera...
...another scene Emilie gets an olive-oil bath, accepts her underwear and dress silently as she looks with shoe-button eyes into the camera. Last sight of the quintuplets in this first section of their cinema biography shows them being popped into their incubators which resemble a row of chicken coops...
...very fast series of flashes illuminates the part at the same point of every revolution, and thus, because of persistence of vision in the human eye, the part appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...
...shape slide past the bathysphere window. The fish ? species un known ? was 20 ft. long, he estimated, and garlanded with lights like an excursion boat. The lights, he guessed, were phosphorescent parasites. Mr. Barton tried to photograph the creature but had almost no time to focus his camera. The film when developed was dismally blank...