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...African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their way through jungles and over mountains never before seen by the cinecamera's eye. The film has not yet been released, but some of the most exciting portions of the sound track have been re-recorded on discs, last week were put on sale.* Endorsed by Anthropologist George Herzog of Columbia University, these discs constitute the best authentic anthology of African Negro music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Melody Hunters | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Professor Francis W. Davis of the university's photography department removed the plug, brought a cinecamera up close to the hole, took pictures of what was going on in the steer's stomach. The film clearly showed that digestion in a cow's stomach is continuous. Semiliquid food surged through in periodic waves like surf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Veterinarians | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...prime tool Dr. Gesell chose the cinecamera. Money was forthcoming from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in 1926, again in 1930 from the Rockefeller Foundation. Tactful emissaries scoured New Haven for young recruits. Hundreds of thousands of feet of cinema film were exposed. From this immense store the picture sequences for the Atlas were carefully selected, each picture made from a single cinema film frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Babies | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...from Manila to San Diego last year, Commander Whitemarsh found his 477-ft. navy tanker Ramapo wallowing up & down the slopes of waves the like of which he had never seen. As the speeding giants overtook him one after another, he stationed observers in various places, got out his cinecamera. While the Ramapo was borne up a windward slope, an officer on the bridge marked the top of the following wave by a point on the mast. To err on the side of caution, the crest was assumed to be on his horizontal sight line although it was unmistakably above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skyscrapers At Sea | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Universal Newsreel's Cameraman Joseph Gibson endeavored to cover both the rooftop snipers and the soldiers blazing away below. Pitching his cinecamera on a hotel roof he started to grind. Soon Cameraman Gibson was out of action with four bullets through his legs. Friends bandaged him but soldiers burst in and tore the bandages off. "Those shots never came from our guns!" they announced after inspecting the wounds. "It was the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Not Our Guns! | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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