Word: photo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable jealousy...
Colored television has become possible because Dr. Ives's colleagues at Bell Telephone laboratories invented a photo-electric cell more sensitive to light than the usual cell. The usual cell depends on the ionic action of potassium and hydrogen. The new cell uses sodium with sulphur vapor and oxygen...
...Rentschler constructed a photo-electric cell with one pole made of uranium. Uranium is sensitive only to the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. They charge it electrically. Hence when the Rentschler uranium bulb is exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between...
...world-wide news-photo-gathering service was set up, including telephoto transmission...
Course. Issuing last week its schedule for the spring term, the University of California listed a new course-Appreciation of the Photoplay. "Recognizing," said a prospectus, "the influence of the screen story and the photo drama as important in the cultural development of the country, and believing that photoplays should be considered in any serious historical and scientific study of art and sociology . . . the University will soon offer the degree of Bachelor of Science in Cinematography...