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America. D. W. Griffith has given the Revolutionary War its official camera test. It screens well-in particular the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In view of this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite...
...photographic competition is open to Sophomores and Freshmen. It demands no photographic experience and the possession of a camera is not necessary. This is the final opportunity for Sophomores to make any but the editorial board of the paper...
...details of the news candidates' duties. The business manager will take the budding business candidates in hand. The photographic chairman will explain the manner in which the photographic competition will be conducted. He desires particularly that prospective candidates understand that neither experience in photography nor the possession of a camera is necessary. The editorial chairman will outline the duties to the Junior editorial writers, to whom this competition offers their last opportunity to make the CRIMSON...
Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
...this purpose a ten-inch visual telescope is mounted on the same tube with the 26-inch camera lens. Through this the astronomer watches a faint star and counteracts every apparent displacement of the star from a fixed point by operating delicate motions up and down and right and left. In this way it is possible to secure star images on the photographic plate that are only about one-thousandth of an inch in size...