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Eighteen
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INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
February, 1934
.Editorial
"Even more greatly my happiness springs from the deep conviction that this year marl(s a greater international understanding of the significance in our modern lives of the teachings of Him whose birth We celebrate. To more and more of us the words, 'Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself,' have lal(en on a meaning that is showing itself and proving itself in our purposes and daily lives.
"May the practice of thai high ideal grow in us all in the year to come."
'HE above is an excerpt from the address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the lighting of the National Community Christmas Tree, in Washington, D. C, on Christmas Eve, 19 33.
The President's declaration: "May the practice of that high ideal grow in us all in the year to come," is in consonance with the spirit of the cameramen of the motion picture industry.
Certainly co-operation is a sign of the times for, everywhere we turn, we find this principle at work in the multifarious activities of men in the reconstruction of our New World as inspired by the New Deal.
It is traditional that since the beginning of the cinema the cameraman has been the strong hand and willing heart of the industry— ever dependable, ever ready to "take it" and asking only a fair share of the fruits of his energy and ability.
The slogan of the Three Musketeers — "One for All and All for One" — should be the slogan of the cameramen, for only in such spirit can he achieve the highest use-value and the greatest permanent results.
The problems of the cameramen are not unsolvable. In truth they are not even great. All that is required is adherence to the principle that the concern of one is the concern of all; that co-operation is the one essential to success; that the New Deal means protection to the cameramen, producers and the picture going public — all alike; that amity is better than animosity; that old wounds must be healed before the full measure of understanding and success can be achieved and that — believe it or not — better pictures will not be forthcoming until an enduring peace has been established between the producer and the cameraman based upon mutual understanding and mutual trust.
The cameramen are rapidly putting their house in order. They are casting aside worn out theories and junking archaic methods, ways and means. A new vision and a new energy, under a virile directing force, gives promise of quick, enlightened and tolerant readjustment, already on its way, and bidding fair to make the year of our Lord, 1934, the greatest in the cameramen's history.
Salus populi suprema lex esto. (The welfare of the people is the supreme law).
The spirit of the New Deal means just that and the cameramen are doing their part.