Word: shellbursts
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Visitors to the Museum saw such subjects as: "Elisofon and his two Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...
...them had ever imagined. Shown throughout the U. S. these were the first frankly gruesome newsreels of the Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter...