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Successful Rebel. Vincente Minnelli has a number of predilections which normally don't go down too well in Holly wood. Boom shots, for instance, are generally under suspicion, both esthetically and economically. A boom shot must either be perfect or be scrapped. Constant use of a finder, too, is regarded as an affectation. Further, Minnelli often reports at the end of a day's work with only one shot perfected, and he is likely to make such remarks as: "The accidental juxtaposition of people and things makes for surrealism. The surrealists are the court painters of the period...
Before ordering a shot, he peers forever through his finder, working to make each shot the most abundant and expressive possible (he was once a photographer). Besides being "boom-happy" Minnelli is "extra-crazy," taking infinite pains to invent minor bits of business with anonymous individuals and groups. No man in the business gets more satisfactory results...
...rainbow sight is made by sandwiching a natural crystal or a synthetic sodium nitrate crystal between two layers of polarizing glass. Optical engineers of the Polaroid Corp., manufacturers of the sight, envision many uses for it. Camera fans have already found that it makes an excellent view finder...
...blocks of one hundred on a 6 in. by 9 in. card. For reading, the card is inserted in a "reflectoscope" which enlarges each microprinted page to 9 in. by 12 inches. Only one page at a time appears in the reader's vision, and a mechanical finder enables him to turn quickly to the page he wants...
Sterling and his technicians from the Department of Commerce had the peacetime experience of tracking down radio-using rum runners, smugglers, gamblers, practical jokers. Their prime weapon was the Adcock Direction Finder (built and perfected by Sterling and his men), which has a long antenna on a 40-ft. tower and gives the approximate point of origin of any radio signal. RID now has 30-odd Adcocks in the U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico...