International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Sixteen The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER April, 1929 Pans and Tilts Bill McGann, assistant director with the First National picture "Broadway Babies," says the picture boasts an all-star camera crew as well as an all-star cast. His call book shows the following members of Local No. 659 behind the sound cameras: Sol Polito, Eddie Linden, Faxon Dean, Lyman Broening, Bob Mitchell, Milton Krasner, Irving Glassberg and Russell Hoover. The lobby display artist is John Ellis. * * * Earle Walker, who wraps up short comedies for Larry Darmour's RKO release, has attracted a great deal of comment up and down Hollywood boulevard by his alleged recent purchase of three elephants from the government of Siam. They were purchased on the installment plan, and Earle intends to rent the elephants to pay the installments. At present the rental department of Local No. 659 is bidding for exclusive lease privileges on the livestock. * * * Edwin Carewe's epic of early day Louisiana is being filmed in the actual settings of the story as conceived by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bob Kurrle and Al Green, assisted by Bob LaPrell, are doing the movie photography. John Miehle, still photographer, is responsible for a very beautiful set of 8xl0's. * * * Christie sound pictures are photographed and recorded at the Metropolitan studios in the new sound stages. These stages are complete in every detail. Gus Peterson, chief cameraman, is being assisted by Bill Wheeler, Alex Phillips, Monte Steadman and Eugene Liggett. Anthony Nagy is in charge of the camera department. * * * Brother John L. Herrmann, steward of the San Francisco territory, writes that Fox Movietone now has 31 News trucks in the field. Brother Norton "Doc" Travis has just received from the Mitchell Camera Corporation one of their newest model cameras equipped with the silent movement for high speed or sound photography. This camera also has the new card attachment. James Seebach, photographing Fox Movietone News, tried a quick route to China last week by way of the shaft in the North Star gold mine. After descending about eight thousand feet the heat indicated that he had missed the track and was bound for Hell instead. Jimmy backcranked in a hurry and returned to San Francisco. He says his next trip to the Orient will be via the China Mail. * * * Charles Stumar, assisted by Robert Surtees, is photographing "The House of Glass," for the Universal studios in Berlin, Germany. The next production to go before his camera is "Fallen Angels." * * * "Broadway or Bust," an all Vitaphone and Technicolor production, is now being photographed at the Warner Bros. lot. There are so many Local No. 659 members behind the cameras on this picture that it looks like an open meeting. They line up as follows: Tony Gaudio, Frank B. Good. Ed. Estabrook, Willard Van Enger, Jockey Feindel, Arthur Pierson, Henry Cruze, Kay Norton and Lee Davis. * * * Brother Eddie Ullman, who is representing the New York Life Insurance Company locally, points out that this company paid out to policyholders and beneficiaries $156,000,000 last year. * * * Brother Wm. Holt Dietz has been so busy with his flying matrimonial venture that he has forgotten to give us his new address. Dear Bill : Please send us your present address via air mail. Out of Focus A New Idea, Will Save Many Steps The above landscape shows Brother Harvey Gould and his dog, Nig, going for a load of film. Photographed in action by Newton Hopcraft The Footo-Phoney is the name of the new device installed at the Fay Dout Studios. This is the result of research work of the Nickel and Dime Department to overcome time lost by assistant cameramen in going for film from the new sound stages to their dark-rooms. The new thousand foot magazines are so heavy that all the assistants were getting hump-backed, and complained that they were not able to enjoy a game of ball during the lunch hour so something had to be done. Footo-Phoney is the result. Note the sunshade over head. This was indeed welcome. It is reported that the Footo-Phoney works very well with one exception, at the present time there is no place to put the film. It is understood that the Nickel and Dime Department expect to overcome this oversight very shortly. Employment Note First Assistant: Are you working? Second Assistant : No. I dropped a piece of a chalk in the middle of a 600-foot scene on the sound stage. eO-glgEBS (j«M"(f|fE«!lHr,e*