Word: leicas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowds passing through the display saw copies of Ronson and Zippo lighters, Sheaffer and Parker pens, Bell & Howell movie projectors, Leica cameras, Esterbrook desk-pen sets, Revere Ware copper-bottomed saucepans, even a West German B.M.W. motorcycle. Some Japanese copies were so precise the parts were even interchangeable with foreign products. "There would be many more complaints if people only realized the full extent of the copying," said one trade official. "American electrical appliance makers may be due for an early shock. Japanese appliance manufacturers are rapidly nearing the stage of technical proficiency where facsimile copies will be possible...
Died. Dr. Ernst Leitz, 85, bushy-browed boss (since 1920) of Germany's famed Leitz optical works (Leica cameras) and son of the founder; in Wetzlar, Germany. The Leitzes first introduced the Swiss watch industry's mass production technique to microscopy, later (1924) added the Leica as a sideline. But by 1930 the tail was wagging the dog, and miniature cameras and candid photography became a worldwide craze...
...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...homey situations, Clark spends hours watching people at soda fountains, listening to women talk on buses, sitting in railroad stations ("The benches are just the right distance apart for watching people"). Much of the time he carries his Leica, snaps hundreds of pictures of street scenes, gestures, buildings and expressions, files them all away for the time when he will need to make a background authentic. Other ideas also come from watching Elise, his wife (and childhood sweetheart), their pretty, brunette daughter Joyce, 22, and nine-year-old son George Jr. All bear strong resemblances to their cartoon counterparts. Another...
...nation of agile mimics; Japanese even coined an ugly word for themselves-sarumane (monkey-imitators)-to use in candid introspective moments. But at the core there was a quality distinctly Japanese, that took or rejected, or sometimes transformed, everything foreign, from Confucius' rules of behavior to a Leica lens...