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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Movie Revolution | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In a Pig's Eye | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In a Pig's Eye | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE FREE AMERICAN CITIZEN, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

Peering inconspicuously through a small hole in his tie was the tiny lens of a Robot camera which Miller had hung around his neck under his shirt. With it, he took 108 pictures of the meeting. Next day he had an addition. He picked up two copies of a fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Concealed Weapons | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

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