Word: mm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Magazine Rifles; 30,000,300 Rounds of Small Arms Ammunition; 27.75 mm. Q. F. Field-guns with limbers, ammunition wagons &c. complete...
...clock in the morning MM. Godin & Chiappe motored out to the big garden of Mme Cotnareaunu, widow of Perfumer François Coty, on the Avenue Raphael. Old-fashioned dueling pistols were loaded with black powder & ball. On the greensward the seconds stepped off 25 paces. The principals turned up their coat collars lest a spot of white shirtfront give a target...
...Mich. A wry caption explained: "These remarkable pictures . . .were taken with the slow motion picture camera (magic eye, my aunt) of the Detroit Free Press." Cameraman Joseph Kalec, slim, dark, saturnine, a onetime Army flyer, made no secret of the fact that he used an ordinary De Vry 35 mm. cinema camera. But he had been obliged to tinker the shutter speed to get "stills" that could be enlarged without blurring...
Dufaycolor claims that its 35 mm. professional cinema film is fast enough to be used with existing lenses and lighting equipment. The British company is making this at the rate of 90,000 ft. per week, and U. S. distribution has been begun by E. Leitz Inc. and arranged for by Defender Photo Supply Co. (du Pont subsidiary). The 16 mm. amateur film is already on sale in Manhattan. A U. S. manufacturing branch has been incorporated in Delaware with an authorized capitalization of $10,000,000, is looking for investors...
...planes regularly until some manufacturer produces specially-designed equipment. First sound motion picture in the air was not Devil Dogs of the Air but Baboona, the Martin Johnson film which Eastern Air Lines showed bigwigs month ago in a Douglas a mile over Manhattan. Baboona, a regular 35-mm. film, will be shown again over Chicago this week in a TWAirliner...