Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

Old Anchor Chain Photographed by Fred R. Archer Our Illustrations /'"'Vur frontispiece this month is from the camera of Truman D. Vencill, a leading light in that group of younger photographers who have come into prominence along with the rise of the miniature camera. We’re proud to fall into line with the nation’s leading magazines in printing VencilTpictures. Making this particular shot, Tru deserted his usual Contax for a ZeissIkon Juell , but as usual kept it loaded with Isopan. Rising in another sense, Franklin S. Allen, the airminded Los Angeles Manager of The American W eekly, is back again on our titlepage with another striking aerial shot, made over Treasure Island from the Goodyear blimp, and as usual with his trusty Contax and Agfa Supreme. The studios have heard all too little of late from Fred R. Archer, famed for years alike among studio folk and pictorialists as a master of the still camera. He has been busily teaching 31