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...track events, Mr. Small said he strongly believed the results of close races would come to be determined by photography in America as is already done in England. He spoke of two instances in his personal experience when the decisions of the judges were later proved by the camera to be wrong. One of his pictures showed an unmistakable foul at the finish of a two-mile race, which, if the judges had seen it, would have changed the result of the meet...
DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS -Highly unusual film of the high-tide of the American whaling industry. When one irritated sea-monster starts crunching a boat and its occupants like a peppermint stick, directly in front of the camera, it is difficult to keep the shivers out of your spine. A distinct achievement...
...first and the third can be detected. The method to be used calls in the aid of the latest of the arts, the "movie". Studies have been made before of the "life of the clam" or the "insect world at work and play", why not of students? The camera will be set up in the study-halls for "close-ups" "slows" and careful analysis of the student mind at work. If a man is on the line, if he needs a C to stay in college and is suspected of D tendencies, then a showing of the film will reveal...
...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...instead explain his films as they are thrown upon the screen. These moving pictures are the only ones that have ever been taken of wild animals that were not wounded, drugged, or in captivity. In making, these photographs no beaters were employed to drive the beasts up to the camera...