Re: [ATM] Misundedrstanding- language (grammar)

["David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>]

I dunno, Wing Man.

But one of Ritchey's richest practical jokes (pun, accidental) according to
Osterbrock, was when he let Chretian guide an exposure of many hours' length
on the first prototype RC scope (.5 meters; I have a nice picture of it for
any who requests it) only to tell him afterwards that the SLIDE PLATE HAD
NEVER BEEN REMOVED.  Is it any wonder that he kept p-----g everyone off,  no
matter where or who he worked for?

By the way, how many of you knew that it was Henri Chretian who invented and
developed, the "Anamorphic Lens" : Todao, Cinemescope, other trade names
used this wide angle projection/camera lens to make the early wide screen
movies in an attempt to protect themselves against the competition of the
newly developed invention, "television"- yes, it was the great one and only
Chretien. I saw a short clip of him, with someone else (Ritchey?) holding
the prototype "Anamorphic lens" in his hands and talking animatedly of it
(no sound in clip). When I was a theatre projectionist, I was astonished at
the size and weight of the anamorphic lens. We had to change lenses,
sometimes.

My brother, who collects motion picture projectors, has two "Simplex"
projectors, with two of these huge anamorphic lenses in them! He's down to
only about 18 projectors, including the two Simplex heads (no piers).

Dave

Chretien's anamorphic lens is still in use, after nearly 50 years, as is his
and Ritchey's wonderful Cassegrain combination, though poor G.W. never saw
it come to pass in popularity.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Schwartz" <richas@earthlink.net>
To: "David Harbour" <scarab2@cox.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Misundedrstanding- language (grammar)


> > The director
> > of the U. S. Naval Observatory was not amused, when, as Ritchey was
moving
> > the 40" mirror in a sling on one of those little fork lifts, it fell
> FORWARD
> > out of the strap, onto its face. The director tried to cushion its
impact
> by
> > extending his hand to try to restrain its fall; he mangled his hand
> > severely. Ritchey was fired, and went back to his Citrus Ranch in Azusa,
> to
> > perish into the mists of history.
> >
> > P.S. They left the mirror on its face, many days, fearing the worst:
>
> So, was the director's hand under the mirror all that time?  He must have
> been screaming bloody murder!   And Ritchey was probably standing there
> dancing around and laughing at the guy, possibly offering him a knife to
cut
> his hand off.
>
>


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