Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tuataras are not only ancient, but odd. They have three eyes, one in the middle of the forehead. In humans, who may be descended, like the lizards and snakes, from something very like a tuatara, this third "pineal" eye has become the pineal gland deep inside the head. The tuatara...
Cinerama's trick is produced by filming its subjects with a three-lens camera (each lens aimed from a different angle). Then the film is projected, by three projectors, on a wide, concave screen; the sound is played over several loudspeakers placed around the theater. Result: an impression of...
First he tried to put photographic film into an eye near the center of the retina, the point where the lens brings the image naturally to a focus. This did not work; eye fluids ruined the film. So he cut a small hole in the rear of the eyeball and...
Then, using a slow film and a flash attachment, Creer took a series of photographs-of newspaper headlines, trademarks, comic strips-which he showed last week to a New York meeting of the Biological Photographic Association. The pictures were clear enough, considering the size of the film, but they were...
EUROPE'S hostile disrespect [is] due to no unfamiliarity with things American. There is a reasonably abundant flow of facts and goods and people across the Atlantic; if we are strange, it is not because we are strangers. Rather, it is as if there hung between us, more formidable...