Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corpses, when eminently newsworthy, will continue to find a place in TIME.-ED. Stomach Pictures Sirs: Your account of the ''stomach camera" [TIME, April 16] was interesting, but incomplete. I fully expected the sequel in the following week's issue. Is not the success or failure of the contrivance as newsworthy...
...hours in a year, should some day be harnessed by man. Anatomy of a lightning flash: a "leader" stroke shoots from a negatively charged cloud-bottom to positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...
...Camera-Shy Roosevelt...
Junior Roosevelt did not strike Cameraman Corvelli. He tackled and bore him to the floor. What he wanted was the camera, upon which he stomped savagely, but without damage to the prize plate in Corvelli's pocket...
...creed of Communism, is not quite good enough for John Dos Passos either. But in all countries he is glad to observe the old forms breaking up. First-rate reporter, he keeps his editorial comment packed, neatly tacit, between the lines. In All Countries is a collection of quick camera shots made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale of the Red Army soldier, the counter-revolutionary...