Amateur Movie Makers (Dec 1926-Dec 1927)

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The NEW TEXT BOOKS of SPORT By D wight R. Furness THE champion of today must guard his laurels carefully. In days past, the king of horse shoe throwers strutted before the group around the country store. Today, thanks to the radio, picture papers, and movies, in addition to meeting all comers with horse shoes, he must have a voice that is captivating to the radio audience, a pleasing personality when interviewed, and his form while pitching the shoes must stand the critical analysis of superspeed slow motion pictures. While motion pictures may be severe critics of professional athletes and sports champions, they are helping amateurs to improve their game by providing film text-books of sport and by allowing them to see themselves as the camera sees them. A number of universities have found motion pictures an aid in pointing out to members of the football teams their individual weaknesses as well as where their team strategy failed during the games. While at Northwestern University, Coach Glenn Thistlethwaite, now coach at Wisconsin University, had motion pictures taken of several games. These films were later shown to the team so that the errors might Photograph by Underwood & Underwood A FOOTBALL PROFESSOR Red Grange. Through The Amateur Movie Camera, Is Helping Train Football Stars. be seen by the squad and so avoided in future contests. The motion pictures recorded in a relentless way both good plays and bad, and illustrated clearly how gains and losses occurred. As might be expected, it was found that the showing of the films sufficed to point out to the players their individual errors so that little oral instruction was needed. REELING A PERSONAL PAGE FOR THE FILM BOOK OF GOLF Joe Novak As Cameraman For C. A. Ziebarth Where films to show the progress of a football game are taken, double speed, or 32 pictures a second, will give better pictures. When taken from the top of the bleachers with a long focus lens the best viewpoint is secured. Should, however, the playing of individual members be wanted for critical study of kicking, tackling, or blocking, pictures should be taken still faster and at close range, so that individual plays can be analyzed in slow motion. "Tug" Wilson, Director of Athletics at Northwestern University, believes that motion pictures will be important text-books in classes for training of coaches. The University is contemplating establishing courses for the training of athletic directors and for use in this connection Mr. Wilson believes that films will aid in demonstrating to students the best ways of starting in races, help to illustrate the best form in pole vaulting, and in fact disclose to the eye through the slow motion movies the secrets of success in athletics. While motion pictures have a definite value for instruction purposes and provide a way in which the form of champions may be studied, they (Continued on page 45) Fourteen