Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

PHOTOPLAYFARE {Continued from page 25) courageous in the face of great odds. Nowhere, in the play, are characters or situations so overdrawn, for emphasis, as to seem caricatures to the intelligent member of the audience. The scenario is convincing and in good taste, throughout. This photoplay has much that is truly cinematic, in that it offers artistic effects that cannot be secured by still photography or by spoken drama. These are spoken of in Critical Focusing in this number of Amateur Movie Makers. Its action and direction are of the highest order; its photography is admirable. This is a photoplay for the educated and the simple; it is written for adults; it is clean throughout, because the director has approached his task with a clean mind. It is particularly suited for non-theatrical showing. The Way of All Flesh TPHIS Paramount Famous Lasky ■*• release, directed by Victor Fleming, is eminently a photoplay for the "hokum" weary movie goer. It tells a straightforward story which is a convincing plot, in a fashion that eliminates useless detail and employs the best devices of the cinema to do it. It is predominantly Emil Jannings and has the weakness of any distinctly "star-play". It just misses an over-emphasis on unusual camera angles and on the naive distorting efforts that mark much of German photoplay technique. The chief excellence of this photo melodrama, aside from the technically cinematic things that have been previously reported in these pages, is its fidelity to its milieu. It is a realistic and an interesting record of the life of a Milwaukee GermanAmerican, promoted slowly from humble employee to bank cashier, who has struck an apparently indestructible routine of home, bank, Turn-Verein, with gentle beer-induced high lights. Sent on a routineshaking business trip to Chicago, he falls a stupid victim to the old-fashioned "vamp" of the most obvious type. He runs the whole gamut of a conventional ruin, is reported as dead and mangled by a railroad train and enters on a typically Teutonic life of retribution. He keeps anonymous, avoids an Enoch Arden return and walks off into the darkness of a snowstorm after refusing to enter the home of his successful son and CULLEN'S Special Filmo Camera Cases Regular BLACK $26 TAN $25 Allowance on old case Duplex BLACK $22 TAN $28 Allowance on old case These cases have become the standard of discriminating Fiimo owners all over the world. They combine practical convenience with the finest example of the leather-maker s arc. Made of heavy sole leather with plush lining. Compartments for 4 100-foot Cine films, telephoto lens, fast lens, color filters, finders, etc. Very little larger than the regular Filmo case but convenient to the last degree. Duplex Case is identically the same but made specially to carry the Filmo camera with Duplex Finder attached, a decided advantage. Slightly more space for additional accessories or film. Schneider f 2 High Speed Lens for Filmo A d l justable Focusing Mount 25mm with mount $37.50 A remarkable high speed lens in which definition and covering power have not been sacrificed. Unusually free from coma, which is so common in high speed lenses. Its color correction powers make it particularly valuable for use with the new Panchromatic Film. Adjustable focusing mount removes all possibility of variation from proper register with the film. A most efficient lens at a price that sets a new low mark for high speed lenses! Filmo and Home Film Rental Libraries We are the exclusive downtown rental headquarters for the Filmo Libraries and the Home Film Libraries, Inc. We now maintain a rental service that embraces the very best and widest selection of films for home entertainment. Complete pictures: comedeis, dramas, newsreels, animated cartoons, scenics, educationals — everything. No fuss, no red tape, no deposit required, and we help you in selecting by showing the films in our projection room. Our 48-hour developing service has won us many friends among the movie ma\ers. 7\[o charge for this extra service. CULLEN 12 Maiden Lane New York City Gortlandt 8424 We have the most complete line of amateur movie apparatus in the financial district. Fifty -three