Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special focus is on the use made of the press. The average man forms his impressions of world affairs largely from the columns of his daily newspaper. What assurance is there that these columns portray the truth? In fully half the countries of the globe, the news was probably gathered by local news agencies (governmentally-controlled) and turned over to the American press representative. He also has access, in some cases, to an official press bureau of the government, and to a government-inspired or-controlled local press. What material he assembles perhaps then must run the gauntlet...
...lectures," said Dr. Fainsod, "will discuss the history of the Third, or Communist International, against the background of earlier efforts at social internationalism. The first two lectures will focus attention of the challenge to traditional loyalties involved in the effort to create an international labor community based on class. The remaining lectures will trace the transformation of the Communist international...
...Paramount's close-up camera was kicked over in the mêleé. Fox Movietone's George Mejat ground away as the police hacked down the assassin, then fought to the side of the car for closeups of the dying King, wriggled away to focus on the bleeding assassin, and a closeup of his gun. Before the eyes of a half dozen cameras, the assassin was trampled to death by the crowd, and bystanders fell before a wild fusillade of police bullets. The newsreel crews rushed their precious films to Paris by air, hoping to catch...
Arena of investigation was a paneled dome, big as an igloo. Two soundless cinecameras rode on tracks up the sides of the dome to the top. Inside was a specially designed clinical crib with accessories. The crib was in focus whatever the position of the cameras. The dome's interior was flooded with a soft, diffused light. The dome was encased in a one-way vision screen so that operators outside could see inside, but the performing infant could not see outside...
...great grey shape slide past the bathysphere window. The fish ? species un known ? was 20 ft. long, he estimated, and garlanded with lights like an excursion boat. The lights, he guessed, were phosphorescent parasites. Mr. Barton tried to photograph the creature but had almost no time to focus his camera. The film when developed was dismally blank...