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...must do big things. Eventually, they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts runs loose in the streets of Liverpool. Just how it is all done, only the camera man knows. It will repay inspection. The Great Divide, you will recall, was one of the first men-are-men dramas and created exceptional excitement in its day under the interpretative treatment of Henry Miller. Currently, it only goes to prove that the world does move and that almost...
...Well," remarked General Pershing, "here we all are, in South America." With that he took the baby in his arms and the ever-present camera men successfully induced the quartet to pose...
...Lost Lady. When the heavens fall and the eruption of eternity smothers the world, this department will probably be still protesting peevishly that straight character study cannot be reflected in the camera lens. For it is the words that come out of a man's mouth that define him, more exactly than all his grimaces and gestures. Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was a character study if ever one was written. The book had no further plot nor purpose. It told of a lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small...
...Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, having received the peace award of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Jan. 5, FOREIGN NEWS), went to Washington. In company with Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador, he called at the White House and conversed in camera with the President. Their meeting was variously described: by Lord Cecil as "a pleasant visit," by a White House spokesman as "an exchange of amenities...
...placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing the current of the body to the quartz threads where they are stretched, shining in shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads, by whose photographed waverings the heart is studied. If the beat is regular and stout, the quartz will fluctuate in an even pattern on the photographic plate; if the heart limps the pattern, too, will vary...