October 23, 2010

Ml-stoppers (Aug, 1954)

Ml-stoppers

MUSCULAR MOLARS: pity the poor dentist who has to yank a tooth of Andre Le Gall, 53-year-old farmer of St. Malo. France, who shows how firmly anchored they are by pulling plough with same.

SNAKY CRANE shown at the GE Appliance Park near Buechel, Ky.. can lift two men 50 feet in air to repair wiring, lights, etc. Called Hi-Ranger. $13,000 piece is hydraulically operated.
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October 10, 2010

Spice Your Prints with “Shadowgraphs” (Aug, 1941)

Spice Your Prints with “Shadowgraphs”

by Roger Clay

PHOTOGRAMS are lots of fun by themselves. But working them in at the margins of real photographs will dramatize the story-telling aspects of the latter.

For example, you shoot a picture of your friend at his morning shave routine, using a lens of normal acceptance angle and focal length. There’s plenty of room at the top of the resulting picture and some at the bottom, too, into which you can “imprint” related designs. So you raid your own medicine chest for a few blades, a razor, and a shaving brush. Read the rest of this entry »

October 5, 2010

California Introduces Candid Camera “Cops” (Jun, 1939)

California Introduces Candid Camera “Cops”

Adopting the slogan “Pictures Don’t Lie,” the Police Department of Beverly Hills, Calif., has equipped its motorcycle and radio car officers with candid cameras, as shown at right. It is pointed out that the policemen will collect pictorial records of traffic violations to refresh the memories of careless drivers when they are hailed into court. The cameras will also be used by the officers to take pictures at the scene of a crime for use with court testimony.

August 2, 2010

Naked Women in Life Magazine (Dec, 1948)

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Issue: Dec, 1948
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I’m pretty amazed this got printed. I doubt it would have 10 years later.

GIRLS WADING, with sunlight playing on leaves and water, was posed by Photographer Yvonne Gregory at a private lake in Norfolk, England, and was shown in September in the 39th Annual Exhibition of the London Salon of Photography.

July 14, 2010

The Amateur Cameraman (Feb, 1929)

The Amateur Cameraman

Edited by WALTER D. KERST

AS AN associate member of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, Mr. Kerst is nationally known as an expert on the technical aspects of movie making. This month he discusses in this department several interesting ways in which the amateur movie maker can secure novel effects with his camera.
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April 1, 2010

Electric CAMERA Works Without Film (Jun, 1932)

This seems very similar to a xerox machine.

Electric CAMERA Works Without Film

SELENIUM, that wonderful metal that changes its electrical resistance upon exposure to light, has recently been used in a most revolutionary camera developed by Mr. K. Wilcke, German scientist. In the ordinary sense of the term, this experimenter uses no film, and entirely dispenses with the use of silver compounds.
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March 30, 2010

Sculptor Gets Pose in Half-Minute (Jun, 1931)

Sculptor Gets Pose in Half-Minute

THOSE who wish to have their classic profiles excavated from the ruins a thousand years from now, may now secure a sculptured portrait of themselves without posing for hours on end. Only thirty seconds of sitting are now necessary to enable Artist William Fred Engleman to turn out a portrait bust in clay, marble or bronze.

Engleman, who combines science with his art, has invented a special camera which takes five hundred pictures of the model in thirty seconds. The photos are taken from such angles that every detail of the contour of the face and head are revealed.

January 8, 2010

Photographing Byrd’s Adventures in Little America (Aug, 1935)

Photographing Byrd’s Adventures in Little America

by TED MAGEE

Exciting and comic events of daily life in the frozen, blizzard swept Antarctic were preserved in pictures by two daring photographers. Here is their pictorial story of a South Pole expedition.

FROM Antarctica, the bottom of the world, the Robinson Crusoes of Science have returned with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd with tons of data on the greatest expanse of unexplored land on this earth.
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December 8, 2009

Statues from Snapshots (Jan, 1929)

Statues from Snapshots

By WALTER E. BURTON

YOUR favorite snapshots can be made into attractive statuettes for your desk or piano, top by following the methods outlined in this article. All that is needed is a piece of cardboard, a saw, and glue.

SOMETHING different in photographic decorations can be easily produced by converting pictures of friends, buildings, animals or other objects into attractive “photo-figures.” Read the rest of this entry »

April 28, 2009

Making Photos as Big as Billboards (Sep, 1930)

Making Photos as Big as Billboards

WHEN Uncle Sam does anything he generally does it on a grand scale. And at the photographic bureau of the Department of Agriculture he carries out these well established principles by turning out photos that are as big as billboards.

These photos when completed are distributed throughout the country to the various agriculture schools and to special agriculture classes carried on for the benefit of farmers who wish to acquaint themselves with the latest developments in the science of farming. Read the rest of this entry »

April 27, 2009

Animate Your Photographs (Apr, 1953)

Animate Your Photographs

A pull on a string and this photo comes to life. To make this toy choose or make a photograph of your child (or even yourself) in a pose which shows the arms and legs suitably extended. Make two identical enlargements and glue these on thin Masonite or plywood.

Now you have two mounted prints; on one you will want to use only the torso, so mark off the legs and arms. Read the rest of this entry »

April 21, 2009

Pigeons Now Take Aerial Photos (Jul, 1931) (Jul, 1931)

Pigeons Now Take Aerial Photos
AN automatic miniature camera strapped to the breast of a carrier pigeon is the latest method being employed for the making of aerial photographs in Germany. The camera is timed so that shutter is snapped at regular intervals in bird’s flight.

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