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...most important instrument of journalism which has been developed since the printing press." ¶ Mass production of cameras and film got under way when a Rochester, N.Y. industrialist named George Eastman invented the Kodak. Eastman coined the name to be pronounceable in any language and "snap like a shutter in your face." He also invented the slogan: "You press the button, We do the rest." By 1896, twelve years before Henry Ford started mass-producing autos, Eastman was manufacturing cameras by the thousands, and film by the hundreds of miles. Price of the first Kodak, $25, with a $10 charge...
...Sound of the Trumpet, is a fictionalized report of his G.I. experience between D-day and the end of the war. It focuses on Danforth Granham, a G.I. cameraman in a documentary film unit, later an infantry photographer, as he shoots his way across France and into Germany, his shutter open to combat and corpses, his arms briefly closed around the Red Cross girl of his dreams. The result of all this picture-taking is a series of dramatically unrelated clichés which add up to a minor war document disguised as a novel. What Leicester Hemingway chiefly demonstrates...
...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 run by his grandfather, Chicago's late, famed Banker James Forgan), landed his first commercial...
...Druten has tried to transcribe not only the characters, but the form of the stories as well, with Isherwood the passive observer of Berlin life in the thirties. As the chronicler of the life around him, the Isherwood of the book can afford to be passive, "a camera, with shutter open." As a character in a play, however, the same Isherwood is only static, a figure hovering, observing, but lacking any depth. Van Druten tries half-heartedly to personalize the character by picturing him as a hypochondriac, but his Isherwood remains only a foil for the other characters, a drab...
News editors will cover big University stories and varsity sports: pipe smoking editorial writers watch the Administration's spending, both here and in Washington; the photo board snap the shutter on almost anything: white neatly attired business board members cover Cambridge for ads, and cast mats...