Word: visual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the U. S. will soon be exhibited an educational cinema entitled The Magic Needle, demonstrating the art of etching for the first time in complete visual form, from beginning to end. William Meyerowitz, famed American painter-etcher, in a narrative setting, goes through the process of etching, from posing the model, a ballet dancer, to drawing off the first proof from the press. The Magic Needle may prove a boon to those persons who frequent print rooms and constantly become involved in violent altercation trying to distinguish between engraving, etching and dry point...
Once their leader was incarcerated, however, the enthusiasm of his followers broke the bonds provided by the visual example of his personal restraint, and the original "soul force" degenerated into mob violence. Gandhi, in prison, was helpless, and watched with a breaking heart the falling ruins of his ideal, as the swaragists exceeded his carefully planned limits and began a campaign of civil disobedience which has apparently ended in at least temporary failure...
...humanize" and "de-academize" knowledge for the benefit of the masses. Both of these objects have been accomplished largely through the medium of a careful selection of authenticated pictures and cartoons. The book is an example of the modern movement to teach general history by means of the visual appeal. It is an exceptionally valuable "pictorial review" of the story of our people. The illustrations occupy more than half the space and at first sight appear to be the more important part of the work, but the text, admirably and tersely expressed, is an indispensible supplement. The manner of organization...
...this purpose a ten-inch visual telescope is mounted on the same tube with the 26-inch camera lens. Through this the astronomer watches a faint star and counteracts every apparent displacement of the star from a fixed point by operating delicate motions up and down and right and left. In this way it is possible to secure star images on the photographic plate that are only about one-thousandth of an inch in size...
...Much of it has been done in connection with his study of the principles and methods underlying the work of the great masters, and is thus more or less scientific in its motive. At the same time, however, it reveals to the sensitive observer a rare enthusiasm for the visual beauty to be found in all sorts of objects and scenes in the world about us an enthusiasm which one associates with Dr. Ross not only as a painter, but also as one of the foremost collectors of the world, and as a teacher who has had a profound influence...