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LOOKING DOWN on the 7th green at Pebble Beach (Calif.) golf course where one of the eleven competitions were played and filmed for “Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf” TV film series. Foliage, left-center, is camouflage concealing camera mounted on platform atop Jeep.
Celestino Tugot on the Waek-Wack course in Ma¬ nila. From there we flew to Singapore, then to Well¬ ington, New Zealand; Pebble Beach, California, and for the grand finale — a round trip that topped them all — from Pebble Beach to Santiago, Chile, where we shot the last show in the series. In all we trav
TOM TUTWILER supervises setting up high-speed camera for low-angle shots of putting action in slow motion on one of the greens of Jamaica’s beautiful Tryall Golf Course.
eled some 50,000 miles by air, and ran up a tab of $30,000 just for air transportation of our equip¬ ment.
Shooting Procedure
The entire series was photographed with the new Eastman Color Negative, Type 5251. I was one of the fortunate “firsts” to have access to this improved color negative. Kodak, in London, was distributing the film long before it became commercially avail¬
able in the U.S. Exclusive of the commercials, which I did not photograph (but which were photographed in each country where the golf matches were played) our five cameras exposed 450,000 feet of this film for the series. We recorded sync sound continu¬ ously as we shot every stroke at every course — very little of which had to be re-recorded later
The photography of each match began at the No. 1 tee. Here we had one camera set up behind the player, another in a forward position for a threequarter shot, with a third camera near the tee pick¬ ing up spectator reactions — closeups of people “Ailing” and “Ohing” in reaction to the players’ good or bad swings, lie of the ball, etc. The fourth camera was set up in elevated position roughly 250 yards down the fairway, mounted on a vehicle and carefully camouflaged with foliage so not to be visible to the cameras at the tee shooting toward
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IN THOSE countries where a Sikorsky or Bell Ranger heli¬ copter was obtainable, it was used to photograph aerial shots of the local golf course on which the Shell Oil competi¬ tion was staged. Here Tutwiler, accompanied by Dick Darley, prepares to take off and film Pebble Beach course.
AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, FEBRUARY, 1963