As inconspicuous as an extra's check, the new 20th Century Silenced Camera purred away on a Hollywood sound stage last week in its first big-time assignment. Gesticulating in front of its highly sensitive lenses were such precious cinema properties as Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, but 20th Century-Fox accountants in back offices well knew the unpublicized camera might prove to be the most valuable asset on the lot.
Three Fox techniciansĀthe late bulky, impetuous Charles Melvin Miller, quiet, balding Robert Stevens and congenial, greying Grover LaubeĀfirst commenced work on the 20th Century Camera six years ago...
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