Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS 307 Closeups— What filmers are doing En route to his home in Switzerland, after three years with the Shell Oil Company in New Guinea, Paul Hunger, ACL, stopped in to see us with films he had taken on that island. All of his pictures were shot deep in the jungle with the friendly, but not too tame, natives as his actors. Unforgettable among many beautifully photographed scenes is a native dance sequence, the music for which was recorded on tape at the same time as the film was shot. Incidentally, do you recall that snapshot we ran of M. Hunger a while back (April Closeups), complete with beard and a pet white cockatoo? Well, the beard was gone when he visited here and so, it seems, was the cockatoo . . . Too bad! For some time now ACL President Joseph J. Harley, FACL, has been disappearing on extended and unexplained visits to the bourbon and black-bean belt south of Washington — somewhere in Virginia, to be as exact as our information permits. Frankly, his habits had us worried, especially with the Ten Best judging high on the horizon. But now all is clear. Mr. Harley, who you should know is a design engineer for the Bell Telephone Laboratories, had been in the rural regions of the South to supervise field tests of a new system of telephone line installation. Matter of fact, he himself designed the system, the key to which is that every last item — save the wires themselves— -is attached to the poles while they're still on the ground. Fully equipped, the poles are then jockeyed up into waiting holes (which, incidentally, had been pre-dug with a Harley-designed power digger) and the wires are then attached to them — again from the ground — with what looks simply like a long stick with a hook on its 1KHBB8* marnm, wwm IOC #5fl ■«;* *** t! W'" ■ re** ■— -■ Hillionen ^ eisferk SpfoenteistuM/r ^Mstik frWiBfllSSSSIf*^^ JjKBk ~*~40^^^. flBkVt?-** wmlutt! t*>^M:'\ >;■: J\f& ■■tl'TlB MM Mm !••_£; JH|9 ■', ?ak *—-... nmtiMt >*■""«« *™ MMlltlt •«'"ji ' "fd^H ™*"^ Mnitlft! »c£ , ■■'■ . * : f s* "T^S f ~^ ■ ~~. ^rrf. fm frm:M fc~pi-Sjj m ■ SGT. JOHN A. MILLER, ACL, of the 497th Signal Photo Service Company, pauses for an informal portrait while on pass in Hockenheim, Germany. upper end. Darnest thing you ever saw! Well! Being a pretty good movie maker (as well as an engineer), Mr. H. naturally had to shoot a few feet of this and that operation as his brain child was tested. Just for his own use, you know. But somehow the brass at Bell Labs got a look at these quickies, and before he knew it Mr. H. had a fullscale production on his hands. Now called Up From The Ground, the picture stands finished at 1000 feet of 16mm. color, complete with a technical but nevertheless interesting optical sound track. It will be used to train other Bell System engineers in these new installation techniques. People and Places: Harry Houghton, ACL, stopped by between trains last month for a stimulating chat on cine affairs. He was en route from Boston to his home outside of the nation's capital, where he is president of the Washington Society of Cinematographers, ACL. While in the Beantown area he had looked up Oscar H. Horovitz, FACL, out in Newton. . . . Which reminds us to tell you that Charles J. Carbonaro, FACL, cut down by a car on Washington's streets, is now out of the hospital and back at his home in Cambridge. Friends can drop him a line at 46 Shepard Street, Cambridge 37, Mass. F rom Farther West, three other visitors of note have brightened our days since we last reported. Taking them in geographical order only, they have been . . . William C. Kirk, ACL, of Denver, where he is president of the Greater Denver Cinema League, ACL, and where, in his home, he is the proud proprietor of an Ampex tape recorder. In town for a longish stay. Bill was headed for (among other attractions) the annual Audio Fair at the Hotel New Yorker . . . Had to see a man, he said, about a recorder! Harvey B. Woodworth, jr., ACL, of San Francisco, where he is president, vicepresident and cameraman for his own production group, the 16mm. Lens and Reel Society. Harvey has two productions before the lenses of his new Auricon Cine-Voice — / Am A City (ah, there, Isherwood! ) and No Rest for the Weary. And from Los Angeles, where he is projection chairman of the Los Angeles Cinema Club. ACL, came Charles J. Ross, ACL. An expatriate Easterner and formerly a member of both the Brooklyn and Manhattan (Metropolitan) local clubs, Charlie showed a nice sense of timing in his visit here. There were meetings of both groups on consecutive evenings during his stay. 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