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George Kirke Spoor. Essanay Studios, officially the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, was an early American motion picture studio. The studio was founded in 1907 in Chicago, and later developed an additional film lot in Niles Canyon, California. Its various stars included Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson and studio co-owner, actor and ...
Calumet Photographic, Inc., often shortened to Calumet Photo and formerly known as Calumet Manufacturing Company, [1] is a photographic retail and photofinishing specialty store, originally headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In 2012, the company owned and operated a chain of 32 locations worldwide. The company had 15 locations in the United ...
Prism dioptres. Prism correction is commonly specified in prism dioptres, a unit of angular measurement that is loosely related to the dioptre. Prism dioptres are represented by the Greek symbol delta (Δ) in superscript. A prism of power 1 Δ would produce 1 unit of displacement for an object held 100 units from the prism. [2]
Central Camera is the oldest camera store in the city. It opened in 1899 at 31 Adams Street. [2] It was started by a Hungarian immigrant, [3] moved to its current South Loop location in 1929 [4] and is currently operated by a third-generation owner. [5] [6] In 2020, radio station WBBM referred to it as "a museum of photography", due to the ...
Michael Groom’s “Between the Lights” and Leon Lozano’s “A Little Hope for Chicago” were two of the grand jury prize winners of Dances With Films: LA. The celebration, hosted at the TCL ...
Male friend driver, who later said he'd been blinded by dust in an eye, went off-road and over a 75-foot (23 m) embankment, she was crushed under the car. Norman Brookman: 1884 1949 65 years Australian politician car South Road, Noarlunga, South Australia: Head-on collision with 4t truck. Herb Brooks: 1937 2003 66 years American
The prism cover test ( PCT) is an objective measurement and the gold standard in measuring strabismus, i.e. ocular misalignment, or a deviation of the eye. [1] It is used by ophthalmologists and orthoptists in order to measure the vertical and horizontal deviation and includes both manifest and latent components. [1]
Photographic film is a strip or sheet of transparent film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals. The sizes and other characteristics of the crystals determine the sensitivity, contrast, and resolution of the film. [1] Film is typically segmented in frames, that ...