Word: shuttering
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...ever more gadgetry. But all too often the array of index numbers, knobs, dials and levers simply befuddled the Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a study in black. The industry's answer: sophisticated but carefree cameras that require little more than clicking the shutter. At the International Photographic Exposition in New York last week, every company from Agfa-Gevaert to Zeis-Ikon was showing off automated midgets...
...calmer times, students were still required to take part in manual labor, though not at such a frantic pace. One of the six school days every week was spent in a local factory, doing some unskilled task. My class was set to work polishing shutter pieces for a local camera assembly plant...
...newspaper and the rigamarole of the respective boards. With the managing editor, they thrilled to the whir of the presses and restrained from feeding the Linotype men; with the editoial chairman, they aspired to literary greatness; with the photographic chairman, they sparkled at the prospects of infinite shutter clicking; with the business manager they talked business...
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...