Word: shutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is how ordinary TV pictures are built up, but the moon shots were scanned more slowly; photographic film was needed to blend them into a pic ture. While each picture was being drawn on the tube, a kinescope camera watched, keeping its shutter open just long enough to catch one entire shot. At intervals, the engineers snapped the face of the tube with a Polaroid camera and got an instant print that gave quick assurance that all was going well...
...Shutter's Creak. The Plague is neither as sustained nor complex as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, but it invites comparison to that modern masterwork in its personal comment on a desperate universal theme. A Spanish exile who lives in near hermitry outside Cambridge, Gerhard spent more than a year fashioning his brilliantly distilled-libretto from Stuart Gilbert's translation of the novel, then found the music for his words in six more months. The score has only the merest wisps of melody, but the music achieves some deeply stirring and unnerving moments -as when an orchestral...
...detectives braced his legs, Milwaukee Sentinel Photographer James G. Conklin, 40, leaned perilously out over the narrow building ledge and aimed his camera at the ground, seven stories below. Magnified by the camera's 300-mm. telescopic lens, the subject loomed sharp and clear. Conklin set his motorized shutter, and his camera caught twelve pictures of a thief in the act (see cuts...
...Alaska, Point Mugu, Calif., and Wallops Island, Va. By the time the views from space were forwarded to the world's meteorologists by radio facsimile, they were often too late to help in the forecasts of local weather. But Tiros VIII carries a new type TV camera; its shutter opens for three-thousandths of a second, forming a photoelectric picture of about 1,000,000 square miles of earth. Instead of fading almost instantly like an ordinary TV picture, the shot lasts for 200 seconds while a scanning device "reads" it slowly, then transmits it promptly by radio. When...
...Polaroid people are convinced that only a truly skilled bungler will be able to ruin a picture with the new Automatic 100 Land Camera. It has a battery-powered shutter that measures the intensity of the light and sets the shutter speed (as high as 1/1200 sec.) at the instant the picture is snapped. The film - either color or black and white - comes in a flat pack that slides into the camera with no threading necessary; and the 31-in. by 41-in. pictures are developed and printed by means of a chemical process built into the film...