Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane for all-in-focus effect . . . A few problems remain (beside the presently unsolved nicker effects, etc., emphasized by 3-D), such as-which is the best way offstage? Into a subterranean cavern below the camera, or over the horizon, or behind the nearest hill or building...
...certain amount of eyestrain appears almost inevitable" is the understatement of the week. In 2-D movies, eyes point at the screen and focus on the screen . . . 3-D techniques demand that the human turn his eyes inward, much nearer than the screen for which he is focused. Then he has a choice of letting the picture blur, seeing the object double, having nausea, dizziness or "eye-strain," or staying away from...
Before his eyes could focus, Mickey got his first baseball. His father offered the baby his choice between a bottle and a ball, and was momentarily frustrated when Mickey did not reach for either...
...English Novelist Rumer Godden is a success. The author of ten novels, several of them about India, she fashions neat plots, her dialogue sparkles, her people have a reasonable resemblance to living beings. Since she usually muffles her main point in soft-focus symbolism, it is not always possible to say with assurance what it is that Novelist Godden is trying to say. Nonetheless, her last two books have sold close to 275,000 copies, and her A Breath of Air was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection...
...portrait of an idealist whose good will leads to havoc, Sophie is convincing enough. But the story lacks focus because Author Godden never seems able to decide whether she considers Sophie a brave new woman, a likable goose or just a goose...