Word: closeups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just before it crashes to destruction. Even such fleeting views should tell much more about the moon's mysterious surface than is now known. Another moon explorer under development by JPL and Hughes Aircraft is Surveyor, which will try to make a soft landing on the moon, take closeup pictures and transmit them to earth, besides analyzing samples of moon "soil." Later spacecraft will orbit the moon, photographing its topography in detail while mechanical eyes search for safe landing places for the spacecraft of human explorers. Long before men set foot on the moon, instruments will have made many...
...catch them in the act of applauding, fidgeting or snoozing. Another camera will be mounted directly above the center of the stage to permit overhead shots reminiscent of old Hollywood musicals. This camera can be aimed by remote control to focus on any group of instruments or on a closeup of Glenn Gould removing his mittens at the Steinway. Eight cameras outside the auditorium can pick up arriving audiences as they ascend the two grand staircases, buzz about the terrace galleries, eye one another in the promenade, or sip champagne in the cafe lounge. Backstage cameras will be ready...
...actors, only Boyer, who plays the hero's father, shows any style. Hero Ford portrays his Argentine as a sort of Fisk Tire Baby with sideburns, but in one scene his performance does achieve a certain breadth. During a colossal CinemaScope closeup, according to an excited M-G-M press release, his eyes are darn near 65 ft. apart...
...fine afternoon a huge Atlas rocket took off from Cape Canaveral carrying an Agena B as its second stage. On the nose of the Agena perched Ranger III, a 727-lb., $7,000,000 marvel of precision and ingenuity that U.S. spacemen hoped last week would send back closeup TV pictures of the moon, and land a small, tough seismograph on the lunar surface...
...much as 160 Ibs. in the river and 300 lbs. in the lake. Three-day excursions can be booked with East African Airways from Entebbe to Queen Elizabeth Park (cost: $78) or Murchison Park ($86), and there is an assortment of river, rail and car trips that provide closeup views of the animals. At Murchison travelers can take the "Royal" cottages (where Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth stayed two years/ago) for $7.25; overflow guests use tents ($4.50) set up under papyrus-thatch shelters. All have to be alert for the elephants that sometimes back up against bedroom windows...