Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...build anew. Absurd, yes. But packed with enough spectacles to make one gorgeously groggy. A thunderous avalanche of snow. A battle with river rapids in peapod boats. In these two scenes, the screen is moved 15 feet nearer the audience, enlarging and slightly blurring the pictures, giving a visual sensation that is like watching the gods at play. Adroitly filmed, from every angle, is The Trail of '98. Then too it contains, in the role of Swedish gold seeker, the laughably lank Karl Dane (famed as Slim in The Big Parade...
...person who is able to see, language seems entirely a visual idiom. The gigantic concept of enabling those who cannot see, to imagine the meanings of the words they read, was the beginning of an extraordinary change in the condition of people who had heretofore been only a little less tragically useless than lepers. Now competent organizations function to aid the blind. In Mount Healthy, the Trader sisters, one blind, both with foresight, have established the Clovernook Press. There, by subscription, are printed books in braille. Kindly senators pass laws; a beneficent government charges no postage on books mailed...
...money, but good things for good people and bad. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford had come by special train to Manhattan to attend the Ford Industrial Exhibition of which Edsel Ford said: "the New York show is built around this one idea-a visual demonstration of the operation of the Ford industries, from the raw materials to the finished product. We have stated frequently that we do not charge a profit on the materials from our iron mines, coal mines, gas plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills and other operations which enter into the construction...
Seventeen of the canvases relate the visual majesty of 17 Toledo industries. In them rude men ladle out molten metal, neat girls direct bottle-filling machinery, smoke stacks smoke, vast iron wheels whir, newspapers flutter on the city, crowds walk in the rain before the shops, fantastic masses of machinery move. Two additional canvases show Toledo of today?neat, smoking, moving; Toledo of the future?a high, angled sky line rivaling that of Manhattan. The represented industries...
...natives, or a scene, or a hunt without pressing sentence after sentence upon us. Photographs in great number help us to gain a more thorough knowledge of what the author has seen. Perhaps more praise ought to be given the author for supplying us with such an amount of visual record; those who care to read the book will enjoy them; those who don't will suffer...