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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Transatlantic (Fox). What makes this a brilliant picture is the way it has been directed by William K. Howard, onetime Cincinnati theatre manager, law student, sales adviser for Universal, who may be among the ten best directors of next year (see above). The story, which borrows the flashy tricks of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

Presently the shipboard newsheet reveals to the lens-grinder that his savings are lost in the failure whose consequences the banker is trying to escape. When the banker is shot in his cabin, the bearded lens-grinder goes to the brig. Robin Hood gets him out, not without severe inconvenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

What time royalty from Japan was viewing with disappointment the mighty cataract of Niagara (see p. 24), Mrs. William Korker, anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: I See Light | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Telephonic Television is still the most satisfactory means of transmitting an image. In the U. S. there is one telephone television circuit in regular operation. One end of it is in American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s offices at No. 195 Broadway, the other in the Bell Telephone Laboratories at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Television | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

The device consists essentially of a fast camera hidden behind a mirror. The mirror contains a hole. After the subject has leisurely arranged his pose, clothes and face the way he wants to have them (reflecting mirrors help him pose for profile and half-profile views) he presses an electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: PhotoReflex | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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