Word: otte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film was' the latest of many by which its maker, gangling (6 ft. 4), shy John Nash Ott Jr., 43, has developed a valuable new research tool for U.S. industry. Its name: "time-lapse" photography, i.e., film sequences taken at regular intervals to catch the actual growth of plants, flowers, fungus, etc. Ott first caught the public eye two years ago with the growth sequences he made for Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning Nature's Half Acre. Last week he had 20 cameras at work on a new sequence for Disney's followup, Secrets...
Lucky Hobby. Ott started time-lapse photography as a hobby at 18. With a secondhand 16-mm. movie camera, he photographed budding apple blossoms every hour for four days. The film made each blossom open like an explosion. To take shots oftener, Ott rigged up an electric clock which every five minutes started a motor that pulled down the window shade, switched on floodlights, and tripped his shutter. His movie showed the blossom slowly opening, flowering, then wilting-all in two minutes. He kept up the work as a hobby, while clerking in Chicago's First National Bank (once...
...ordered ancient spruce trees hacked down at many street corners to improve vision and was fiercely attacked by ladies of the city's garden clubs. He explained: Ladies, when we trimmed the petticoats ott those old spruces, we saw some of the funniest limbs in all Denver. Modesty alone dictates that we chop them down. . . " The ladies were not amused...
...Well," he said, "there was an item in the paper last week announcing that Mel Ott was retiring from baseball permanently to go back into the contracting business, the place where he was before old John McGraw brought him before the eye of the people...
...special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...