Word: colors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in color photography, "God's Country and The Woman" is unexcelled, but the plot, while appropriate to the scenery, is weak. It is the old, old tale of the valiant young girl who for reasons of her own carries on a man's job against tremendous odds, only to break down and become a woman again when the right man comes along...
...tulle embroidered with the silver roses of Lippe-Biesterfeld, her train 18 feet long carried by four chil dren, and her sash of orange blossoms sent by loyal Dutchmen who grow oranges in Italy. The twelve bridesmaids were in six pairs, each pair dressed in a differing pastel color to produce a soft "rainbow effect" desired by the Crown Princess. She tripped over a cushion just as she was about to sit down in one of the two "bridal chairs" - there is no altar in a Dutch church - but Prince Bernhard kept his bride from falling, and later, when...
...dynamiting the jam while the personnel of both lumber camps enjoy a free-for-all fight on the river bank. Good shots: An expert logger nonchalantly retrieving a water bottle from the notch in a fir tree, just as the notch closes when the tree falls; the timber country color photographed from the air, with fir-covered mountains spread out to blue horizons in the pattern of enormous deep-green surf...
...like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...
...advertising sensation of 1934 was the color photograph of Gentleman Jockey Crawford Burton, twice winner of the dangerous Maryland Hunt Cup, posing in his racing silks as an endorser of Camel cigarets' recuperative powers. By a horrible mischance, the photograph of Mr. Burton, holding his saddle and girth, reproduced in such a manner that to a prurient or imaginative eye it appeared to show Mr. Burton indecently exposed as only a man could be exposed...