Word: visual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another way sterilized by the sound device. Frontier atmosphere, crystallized in words and incidental noises, and the opportunity offered to expert modern photographers by frontier hillscapes have proved important at the box office. On the other hand, the speed of the old western, that unstoppable rush of visual images which would have been a highly exciting thing even without any story at all, is gone. Its absence was never proved more definitely than by The Arizona Kid. For this is no sophisticated echo of an old form, but the great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman...
...better guidance, the research division of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...
Last week the Department of Commerce announced a visual beacon will be erected at Bellefonte, Pa., in the middle of dread "Hell's Stretch" (graveyard of many a mail ship), for tests by NAT pilots on the New York-Cleveland...
...Visual radio signals are received in a box mounted on the plane's instrument board, containing two white-tipped metal strips called "reeds." The reeds, placed side by side, vibrate vertically in tune with the two modulation frequencies used by the sending station. The "longer" reed (i. e., the one which looks longer because it vibrates with greater intensity) indicates the side on which the plane is off its course...
Bride 68 (Tobis). With dialog part English and part German, injected at intervals, usually with the effect of interrupting rather than heightening the rapid, graphic flow of visual imagery, this picture deals with men and women in Australia during the gold rush. The men worked in a harsh country, with a fever that made the values of normal life as remote as the riches of hallucination driving them on. The women came to join them, an adventurous shipload of outcasts, each numbered and assigned in lottery to waiting pioneers. One of the women dies coming over...