Word: snapshots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small inequalities of color distribution which may show up when a cinema projection is sufficiently magnified. Not only does Dufaycolor not suffer from this defect but it has adopted such highly translucent inks hat it is able to state that its film is nearly half as fast as snapshot film...
Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
...circumstances they succeeded in maintaining a clublike atmosphere at the squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends. Lately he was persuaded to issue it to the public. It is detailed, vivid, gaily dressed with anecdote. Besides many a snapshot the book includes five etchings of planes in combat by another flyer of the group, Architect Lansing C. (''Denny") Hoklen...
...attitude in Rockefeller Center. The number of guards was increased. When Rivera brought men to photograph his fresco, they were sent away. Personal feuds sprang up between the Rockefeller Center guards and Rivera's assistants. A guard threatened to brain an assistant if he tried to take a snapshot. Rivera's heavy scaffolding was replaced by a movable scaffold. Rivera draped tracing paper over the outside railing, screening the platform from the guards, and a woman assistant took a camera from under her skirt to photograph, close up, part of the fresco. The scaffold was moved, the operation...
Hitler. The life of Adolf Hitler can be summed up in a few snapshot scenes...