Word: shuttered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas does not like to hear sounds that are not in the score. This one was the click of a camera shutter, from News Photographer Arthur French, who was in the front row. Sir Thomas whirled in fury, brandishing his baton, shouted: "Leave the hall. This is an insult to the audience. You're sorry? Well, you should be. Leave the hall at once." Photographer French left with all speed...
Photographer Hill's technical problems were enormous. His camera was a homemade, boxlike contraption with a shutter that was pulled open and pushed shut by hand. Its exposures lasted from two to six minutes. To get his subjects to sit still so long he propped their arms and torsos comfortably on heavy, leather-bound books, canes, chair arms and the edges of tables. Because staring eyes would spoil his pictures, he photographed most people with downcast eyes. Unable to take a picture except in broad sunlight, he constructed "interiors" out of doors with the aid of curtains and furniture...
...take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...
...each building there will be a vestibule arrangement to allow doctors and nurses to enter and leave without light escaping. Windows will consist of three parts: heavy-duty plate glass reenforced with wire mesh, screen, and blackout shutter...
Ventilation experts have devised a system to circulate fresh air into the rooms during the nightly "lock-up" for blackouts. Light-proof louvres will be installed in each blackout shutter...