Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed. The camera's shutter has caught the eleven bullet-riddled victims in the act of falling. One is arched up, head back, on tiptoe. One, with a long beard, has turned sideways, looks like a figure on a Greek frieze. One man's knee is drawn up as if he were...
...would President Roosevelt look with dundrearies? Could Primo Camera's appearance be improved by a walrus mustache over his vast gummy mouth? Could Greta Garbo get a job as a bearded lady? Such questions may sometimes arise in the minds of presidents, prizefighters or actresses but they occur more frequently to children who answer them by defacing newspaper photographs...
Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams last week loped happily down the gangplank of the United States liner Manhattan, back from Bermuda. His "fog camera," tested during the cruise under his supervision, was to remain on the Manhattan's upper bridge as regular equipment, was slated for installation on the Manhattan's sister ship Washington...
What interested the U. S. Lines in the Williams infra-red camera was the speed with which the negative could be viewed after exposure. The long, tripod-mounted duralumin box contains its own "dark room." As soon as a portion of film is exposed it is fed swiftly into a developing bath, then into a fixing bath after which it is illuminated for examination. Elapsed time: 30 seconds. Thus a skipper can safely photograph his way through otherwise unnavigable fog provided nothing crosses his path at a distance less than his ship travels in half a minute...
...rodeo broncho, a riding horse, a junkman's nag. Just as he ambles into a slaughterhouse he is found again by Clint and shipped back to the range. After the rodeo scenes Smoky loses its legitimate interest as an equine biography. Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time in Arizona cow country, posed his mustang hero against a sun-drenched panorama of hills and prairie. Good shot: Smoky causing a stampede when he returns to the herd after hobnobbing with his first skunk...