Word: cameraful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...publishers, but to the London Graphic (illustrated weekly) goes the well-merited palm for ultimate journalistic impertinence. It has equipped one Dr. Erich Salomon, under the pseudonym of "Cyclops," with a camera which will take pictures of people where they have never been successfully snapped before?in ordinary electric lamp light. This enables him, for example, to attend a great banquet and photograph a queen with a spoonful of soup at her lips. For the past ten months the Graphic has published such stealth-got snapshots. Last week Graphic readers smirked and tittered at the "Unsuspected Moments" page. Not only...
...with his unique camera hidden beneath a napkin, Editor Bott's "Cyclops" can and does snap the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the act of sleeping through a speech at an Anglo-Finnish Society dinner. At the English-Speaking Union dinner, the Archbishop of Canterbury was snapshot six times, peering, grimacing, pinching his chin. Timothy A. Smiddy, High Commissioner of the Irish Free State, was seen smacking his lips over what was clearly not his first glass...
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...
Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...
...Eastman Kodak Company took over the manufacture of the machines and at the present day the silhouetteograph is used in many colleges and schools throughout the country. The equipment used in the taking and developing of the silhouettes consists of a camera, sensitized bromide paper, developer, fixing-bath, and a linen frame. The expense of operating the silhouetteograph, not including the cost of lighting, amounts to about a half a cent for an exposure...