Motion Picture Moulin: Captain from Castile, product of three years' study of Spanish source material dealing with the conquest of Mexico, was sold in 1944, for motion picture production, before publication. It was translated into 18 languages, including Pakistani and Turkish. Prince of Foxes, a sweeping Renaissance tapestry, published in 1947, also became a motion picture. The King's Cavalier (1950) and Lord Vanity (1953), the latter also sold to the motion pictures, were likewise immensely popular.
In the tradition of straight photography, Eliot Por-. -.vhose sensitive black-and-white photographs were .'.n by Stieglitz at An American Place in 1938-has itly photographed the natural scene. Porter makes own prints from color transparencies, and can thus his final image. Ernst Haas has chosen to depart from the naturalistic. By deliberately double-exposing the by moving the Camera while the lens is open, by ling abnormal exposures, he produces images that zre often of great intrinsic value. Eliot Eli so f on, the Life photographer, experimented with the use of colored fil-j tsrs over the lens or light source. He was consultant to Hollywood in the distortion of color for emotional effect, a in the motion picture Moulin Rouge.
Such findings would go unnoticed without alert observation, intensive study, and erudite comprehension in the laboratory or clinic.) Some well-known examples of serendipitous discovery include the use of certain antihistamines for the prevention of motion sickness, the therapeutic value of the sulfonamides, and perhaps the most picturesque-a suitable plot for a historical novel or motion picture-the discovery of the antibiotic properties of penicillin.
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