Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded to give...
...dialog or construct a story himself but has a talent for squeezing the last drop of emotion out of any well-written scene. He came to Hollywood with his wife Florence 18 years ago in a rattletrap Ford, stealing gas and tires on the way, bringing with him a camera record of the trip. Since then he has made such silent pictures as The Big Parade (1925), The Crowd (1927), talkies like Cynara (1932), Hallelujah (1929), The Champ (1931). At present his feelings are concerned with Our Daily Bread...
...Omaha James Roosevelt, eldest of the President's four sons, freely posed for newscameramen, told reporters: "I think my brother Frank is very foolish to be so camera shy." In circulation at the time was a photograph of Son James puffing a pipe-shaped cigar which its sponsors call a "cigapipe...
...their rancid butter-tea, watched the smoke of incense curling from bronze burners, rested. On May 17 he was at Camp No. 3 with his porters. He instructed them to wait two weeks, set out alone up the ridge with three loaves of bread, two tins of porridge, a camera. The porters lost him from sight at 23,000 ft., starting across the North Col. The porters waited two weeks, and two weeks more. Then, their food almost gone, they started back to Darjeeling...
...motor cars and likes his guests to hate them, the usual thing is to drive out to Neudeck in an old-fashioned landauer. But for Royalty would this do? For Siam's little King, who dotes on the picturesque and is forever filming it with a Leica still camera and a Bell & Howell cinemachine. a landauer would have been just the thing. But swank Col. Oscar von Hindenburg insisted on a Mercedes. As the big car swept up to Neudeck an entire company of Reichswehr troops stood at wooden-soldier salute, flanked by peasants in bright, old-fashioned East...