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¶A breakfast-food manufacturer advertised an atomic bomb ring: "Actual atoms, splitting like crazy inside this ring! Look into lens-and socko! You'll see brilliant stabs of flashing light caused by released energy of atoms split to smithereens inside atom chamber." Only 15? and one box top...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Prod to Provoke. For a photographer, Karsh works fast; he usually needs no more than 20 minutes to get all the shots he wants. He uses a $100 Ansco camera, an 8 x 10 with a $265 lens and a long cable release. His trick is to walk around the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Face of History | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

More notable than the kick-in-the-teeth plot is the novel technique Director Montgomery uses to tell it. Attempting to put the audience in the detective's shoes, he pretends that the camera is the detective's eyes. Many movies have used this technique in individual scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Navy picked up an idea which Inventor Douglas F. Winnek had been working on since 1932. Winnek uses a camera with a lens wider than the distance between the human eyes, and takes his pictures on a special film covered with tiny, transparent ridges. These act somewhat like lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trivision | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Light which reaches them through one edge of the camera lens makes a dot-&-dash picture on the sensitive emulsion behind the ridges. Light passing through the opposite edge of the lens makes a slightly different picture. When the negative is looked at with both human eyes, it seems to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trivision | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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