Word: draughtsmen
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...bodied gods and animals. Their pigment, which they lifted in handfuls from five different bowls beside them, was powdered rock and charcoal-white, blue, yellow, black and red. Trickling each handful in a fine stream between thumb and forefinger, they drew lines and wedge-shaped patches as accurately as draughtsmen, pinched off a dot or a spot of color here & there as featly as if they were salting the tail of a bird. It was beautiful. It was also impressive...
...work, tracing the successive movements of animal arms and legs on an animation desk; 2) a model of the inside of a multiplane camera, showing how backgrounds and characters are photographed together from superimposed drawings on celluloid; 3) stage sets and sculptural models of Disney characters used by Disney draughtsmen as models for their drawings; 4) music from Fantasia, played softly on a public-address system through the museum's ventilating ducts; 5) (most popular) a 4-by-5 screen on which visitors, seated on wooden benches, could see a soundless 15-minute reel of excerpts from everything from...
When Chrysler draughtsmen organized a Society of Designing Engineers, C. A. C. furnished a draughtsman-agent to join the union, report on its meetings. Twenty members were shortly discharged. Remaining members, a Society official testified last week, were so terrorized that they had stopped attending meetings, were mailing their dues...
...potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton's is distinguished by jackass ears...
...point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...