Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in...
The waves start from the roof of a Telephone Co. building in Manhattan. A tricky metallic "lens" concentrates them into a narrow beam, sharper than the shaft of a searchlight, which points at the first relay station atop Jackie Jones Mountain, 35 miles away. A receiving lens gathers in the...
Fox got into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the...
The time was Christmas Day minus two, 1944; the place, five miles from Bastogne. The swart, short-legged photographer got out of his jeep, climbed an embankment and fired away with his long-lens Contax at some G.I.s advancing across a snow-covered field. Suddenly one yelled and leveled a...
The Dark Passage (Warner) builds up a remarkably long and effective delayed entrance for its star, Humphrey Bogart. During the first several reels, the camera-along with the audience-sees the world through the hero's eyes: rolling downhill in a barrel (he is a convict making a break...