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The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
December, 1934
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Another pioneer cameraman passed away at Wilshire Hospital on the night of Monday, November 19, in the person of Henry Gerrard, first cinematographer of R. K. O. Radio.
An operation for appendicitis was the immediate cause of Mr. Gerrard's demise, an ailment superinduced by a wound sustained during service in the Great War.
Deceased was a member of Local 659 and the A. S. C. His last picture was "The Little Minister." He was born January 3, 1899.
Heartfelt sympathy is extended to the bereaved family by his host of friends.
Why Not Let Cameramen Buy the Cameras and Use Them?
Washington Times, Nov. 1, 1934. — Secretary of the Interior, Harold L. Ickes is determined to get into the motion picture business — or at least some of his employes seek to enter him in motion picture production.
The Soil Erosion Administration, of which Ickes is administrator, not to be out-done by other bureaus which are making motion pictures of their activities, went out and bought a couple of motion picture cameras last summer.
Hoping to be up to the minute they purchased sound cameras that had just been placed on the market by a large communications organization that is dabbling in motion pictures.
Equipped with their cameras and several thousand
Herford Tynes Cowling, one of the best known cinematographers in the world, but recently resigned from the Department of the Interior to engage in business for himself.
feet of film, Soil Erosion experts headed for the "field" to make sound recordings, although none seems to know whether soil makes noises when eroding or not.
The boys went after it, however, particularly on Indian reservations in the Far West and around National Parks.
When the films were developed they had some fairly good amateur pictures as a result of their effort. But the sounds were disappointing in that they were few and far between.
Somewhat worried over the situation, one of the soil erosion would-be photographers sought the advice of an expert.
The expert asked :
"Of what did you make sound pictures?"
"Oh, lots of things — including Indians talking their sign language."
He was asked what sound an Indian makes when talking in sign language to which he responded :
"We had an interpreter talk into the mike to interpret the signs."
And that's not all —
Upon investigation it was discovered that the particular "sound cameras" — which the government had bought — were just experimental jobs — none others had been sold — and the engineers of the firm that sold them had not even been able to make them record any sound worth hearing, or that was intelligible if at all audible.
Moral — Imagine a sound picture of the Grand Canyon eroding.
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