Business screen magazine (1946)

Sam MiRAiiiiio hus some tips lor producers planning to work in the hot countries often out of touch of civihzalion: "After a couple of trips loaded down with do/ens of separate equipment cases. I finally worked up a fitted steamer trunk packed with foam and cut out for all my stuff. It goes on the plane with me. goes in the car with me. and I wouldn't he without it. It was well worth the $875 freight charge it cost me to get it to Africa." "The Arriflex people and their dealers in Philadelphia. O. H. Hirt, gave us fantastic cooperation in helping to plan our equipment. We had special electrical cahles to drive the cameras directly off the Land Rover hatteries. when necessary. We also had special fittings to line up our Cine M) hattery b^'lts on to liKai power supplies-kerosene powered generators, and sometimes even windmill-operated electrical systems. "When you"re with primitive people the tripod can be a real hindrance. It looks overpowering, it scares people and it's not adaptable. Tm an old tripod man myself: I used to think that if you didn't have a tripod you were a bum, but 1 used an Arri shoulder brace almost al the time this trip, and it workei out fine." "My basic equipment consistet of one Arri BL with APKC. tin< Cine Specials, two Nagras. two CtA ortran Mini-Pros and stime quart lights I rented in Nairobi and neve used. The Cine Specials wer brought because they're spring wound and we had anticipate!.' power supply problems. But as ii turned out, the BL did W^i of tbi work, and never stopped running. "Film was 7252 for all outsid work, and 7242 pushed one stoy for interiors. I shipped my filn! home by air from Nairt)bi to th WRS lab in Pittsburgh and got fas reports on results by ;uiiateur radii] linking me through the missionar ics' station in Kenya to a ham op erator friend in Philadelphia. Sam Mirabello could also hav added that it helps immeasurably t have had lots of prior e.xperienc shooting under difficult condition;' He got his experience the hard wa as a cameraman with Channel 3 i Philadelphia, and has since gone o to produce a number of award-wir ning dtKumentaries on such fai ranging subjects as gypsy moth: American Indians, conch fishermc and Amish farmers. I cut the cost of listening to your slide projector. Remember when you used to have to fumble around with scripts and switches during your slide presentations'' You still do^ Now you can afford not to Our Sound-0-Matics cost less than any comparable equipment Sound-0-Matic works with |ust about any automatic, remotely controlled slide proieclor 10 give you up to 60 minutes' worth of audio: i commentary, music, and sound effects And it will forward the slides automatically, on inaudible electronic cues you program onto Ihe tape cassette sound track You sit back with your audience and en|oy the audio-visual show You also can have CSA Procu'smani Intotmaiion GSOOS 6386') Sound-0-Matic in a play-back-only version Or one that will pre-program pauses " for question and answer sessions Or one records audience replies on a punched a All at prices that make Sound-0-fv(aticn ' soundest sound investment you can makcfo : your slide presentations . Write for details, or ask for a live demo | stration that speaks for itself Optisonics Corporation b: Monigomer/ville. Pa 1«936 / (215) 368-01 1 1 Gentlemen Why should I put up withi a silent slide proieclor when talk, music. an< sound effects cost so little'' D send literature. D call me to arrange a demonstration. T.im Artr1r«^« r.iy <:i>i. 7.n 28 BUSINESS