October 13, 1947
The camera obscura was invented thousands of years ago, and mainly used to aid artists. It projects an image of the world through a small hole and onto a larger surface in a dark room. The image is an exact moving replica, in color, of what's outside the room. The largest camera obscura in the world is located near the pier in Santa Monica.
Cy is a murderer. He recently killed a man who he vaguely knew. After the murder he feels no regret. He's pleasantly surprised to discover that the man he killed had $200 on him. A few days later, Cy is talking to the man's fiancee and learns that she had loaned him $200 on the night he was killed. The woman assumes he'd run out on her with the money, and Cy is happy to let her continue with that assumption.
