Word: shuttered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pictures produced with ordinary silver emulsion film cannot be too small or too large without suffering distortion. The images recorded on light-sensitive film when the camera's shutter is snapped are formed by small deposits of metallic silver grains. For photographs taken through the microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes...
Sound tracks such as now border motion picture films, are imposed on a revolving glass disc. A series of shutters, connected with a keyboard, covers the maze of tracks. When a key is depressed its shutter opens, allows a beam of light to pass through the disc, shine on a photoelectric cell. The light is transformed into an electric impulse, the impulse into sound. Working on this purely electrical principle the fineness of tone division becomes limited only by the ability of the human ear to perceive...
Slinking week by week through London banquet halls, "Cyclops" has winked a camera shutter at Winston Churchill fiddling with the silver at the Canada Club dinner, at Funnyman Leon Errol, caught looking uncomfortable in stiff evening clothes, dining with the American Society. That great shipowner and financier, Lord Inchcape, was snapped five times during one course, once sucking his forefinger...