Sentence examples for primitive camera from inspiring English sources

In 1820 he devised a kind of primitive camera obscura with a lens and a mirror that allowed him to draw a portrait in 15 minutes.

When Dodgson looked through the lens of his primitive camera, what he saw would have been rendered backwards and upside down, much like the room Alice sees through the looking glass.

The stunning otherworldly effects and the lovely quotes from Gustave Doré, Vermeer and Louis le Nain are achieved with primitive camera techniques and legerdemain on the part of the art director and set and costume designers.

George Melies's 1902 short film "A Trip to the Moon," probably the first science fiction movie, tells a simplistic space travel story while making playful use of primitive camera trickery.

For me, it was just important to photograph what I was part of.' To this end, he used a primitive Exakta camera and countless rolls of cinema film that he had bought cheaply from a friend, and which he cut into strips, then draped over his shoulder and fed into the camera.

In 1991 a team of frustrated computer types at Cambridge developed a primitive online camera to find out whether it would be worth making the long trek to the departmental tea-room ( www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/qsf/coffee.html).html

There have been some famous examples in the past of police misbehaviour caught on much more primitive amateur cameras than the latest generation of mobiles and videos.

The new system won't be playable, and you can't see the 3DS with our primitive 2D cameras, but their booth is always a blast and worth checking out regardless.

Stenop.es is an experimental visual project using a primitive technique: The Camera Obscura.

The mood of conflicting world views is exacerbated by an almost room-filling hand-built organ with eight even larger black, rather flimsy speakers that suggest primitive cannons or cameras.

Way back in 1928 — black-and-white films with sound had only barely begun to turn up in theaters — George Eastman demonstrated a primitive color home-movie camera, prompting a reporter for The New York Times, covering the unveiling, to get downright giddy about the future.