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...York underground, once declared, "The home movie is the true folk poetry of the American cinema," and told us to save our 8mm film of family outings and sightseeing tours. The average man doesn't care much about folk poetry; more crucial, perhaps, the reasonably-priced, zoom-lensed, super-8mm movie camera is rapidly becoming the mass-produced means of preserving experience--of making possible the re-running of life at will and at leisure...
...Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...
...Zoom Zoom Zoom, Collegians...
...flick, a comedy called The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz, calls for the heroine to play a swinging East German lady decathlon champ who decides to take it on the lam from that draggy country. Zoom!-she pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall. To get in shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke...
When Genovès washes his paintings in green or brown, it seems as though his lenses were equipped with filters. He also employs photography's "zoom lens." Enlargement shows a fleeing crowd on the left; at the right, the eye zeroes in on one figure spotlighted from the mass. Positive. Negative uses another photographic device, showing a slain black couple on a white field, their arms reaching toward their mirror image, a slain white couple on a black background...