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Early last week, as Congress surged toward adjournment, Candid Cameraman Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington made his way quietly into a Senate Gallery, sat down behind two visitors. On the Senate floor below, Louisiana's Long was in the midst of his filibuster which marked the closing hours of the Senate session. Next to him sat Arizona's white-suited Ashurst and just beyond, Oklahoma's blind Gore, his head attentively lifted. In his frontrow aisle seat slouched Senate Leader Robinson, disgusted beyond words at the "Kingfish's" performance. Around the walls of the chamber stood...
When Photographer McAvoy left the Senate gallery, he had succeeded in taking the first newspictures in U. S. history of the Senate in session...
...exhibition gallery in Rockefeller Center last week to see what experts could do with their minicams. All of the 300 prints on view were enlarged and unretouched from the original postage stamp negatives. They represented the work of 25 photographers, ranging from socialite amateurs to Professional Photographer Thomas D. McAvoy of Washington, whose candid-camera shots of President Roosevelt (on ammonia-sensitized film) first appeared in TIME two months...
What type of miniature camera did Mr. McAvoy use, was the film panchromatic, how fast a lens was used and at what aperture...
Cameraman McAvoy used a Leica camera with a Summar f2 lens, worked with the lens wide open at one-eighth second speed. His film was Du Pont Superior panchromatic, hypersensitized to half again its rated speed by exposing it to fumes of the strongest ammonia obtainable in a closed box for four minutes. Caution to novices: Film so treated should be used within eight hours. After that period it will not only lose its extra sensitivity, but may deteriorate below its original condition...