Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced, to find the score either missing or massacred. Once they worked for 15 months at M-G-M., and turned out only five...
...character and substance. Its life blood, however, is a story which, although it is a throwback to silent cinema classics, has derived through them some of the heroic sweep and thunder of the West's lore of legendary foresters. Good shot: a falling redwood seen through a stationary camera sighting along the trunk of the tree as it levels with the lens...
...rest of the action, occurred in the Vanderhof living room, where the Kirbys, arriving the night before they had been invited for dinner, were just in time to be carted off to jail when the fireworks in the basement exploded prematurely. Unimpeded by the restrictions of the stage, the camera follows the party to jail, then into court, then into the newspapers, then into a board meeting at the Kirby bank in a series of scenes which lifts the feud between the Kirbys and the Vanderhofs to the plane of that between the Montagues and Capulets. By the time Grandpa...
...Russell's home course; at Duluth. Both golfers took up the game after losing their sight, usually play in the 80s, have their caddies place the club head in the proper direction, describe the lie and distance. In last week's match, disturbed by whisperings and camera clicks, Mr. Russell took 56 for the first nine holes, Dr. Oxenham...
...airplane is an instrument as vital and epoch-making as the telescope, the microscope and the camera. An hour in the air is worth a year on the surface in . . . understanding the works and ways...