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When the scripting team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker announced that it would film Swiss Family Robinson as its first fling at producing, story-starved Hollywood gasped with admiration, wondered why Johann Rudolf Wyss's century-old best-seller had been overlooked so long. The wonder has abated...
The Schmidt camera is unique among astronomy telescope in giving sharp focus over a large area of the sky. Light enters the telescope through a correcting lens, travels onto a spherical concave mirror, and is reflected back onto the film which is also curved.
Another possibility envisaged by Mr. Baker is that the new design may prove useful for aerial and landscape photography, discounting its greater awkwardness by its faster lens and sharper definition.
Timetable for Tramps contains excellent pages on New York City, Marseille, London, post-War Paris, and on the habits of those who live there. Well aware that, thanks to war, most of what he tells of will never be the same again, Koeves subtitles his volume "A European Testament." In...
Besides her honest, very neatly told, never uninteresting story, Mrs. Keith presents the psychological spectacle of a likable, genteel lady who may crossruff but never cancel her ladyhood. Seen through that lens, her portrait of Borneo is seriously limited.