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AEROPLANES AND EVERYTHING
ACTORS as AMATEURS
The Rochester Community Players Produce a Photoplay
NE more group has gone in for amateur photoplay producing. "Fly Low Jack and the Game," a three-reeler made by the Rochester Community Players on amateur standard film, is having its first public showing October 13th at the Community Players' Theater.
The Community Players are a group of enthusiasts for the "legitimate drama," with a membership widely representative of Rochester life. Being in "The Kodak City," they, least of all, could elude the bacillus amateurcinematicus, and they turned their dramatic talents to making a movie as an experiment.
"Fly Low Jack and the Game" was directed by Mrs. Harold Gleason and photographed by Harris B. Tuttle and Allan H. Mogensen. Mrs. Gleason had had her introduction to amateur photoplay making in a comedy produced by members of the faculty of the University of Rochester and shown at a faculty entertainment this spring.
The Community Players' movie is rather a pretentious affair; and yet the making of it was simplicity itself.
Most sensational, there is an aeroplane crash that equals — at least so think the amateur producers — anything that has come out of Hollywood. An able and willing flyer's maneuvers and the wreckage of an old plane did the photographic trick.
Also there was a polo game, with the principal actors mounted. But it was easy enough to borrow horses for the occasion on the sidelines of a game actually in progress without relation to the picture.
There are lawn scenes, beautiful interiors taken at f. 1.9, a drawing room scene taken in evening clothes on a sun porch at 8:30 in the morning, a swimming pool scene with the aged uncle falling in with his wheel chair, and many other "thrillers" after the best movie manner.
The story was original with the Rochester Community Players. It concerns the efforts of two wartime aviators to persude the rich and gouty uncle of one of them to finance their projected polar flight.
The principal actors were Mrs. Harris B. Tuttle, Mrs. Angela Cobb Sessions, Mrs. Allan H. Mogensen, Wilbur W. O'Brien, William W. Winans, Jr., and Howard T. Cumming. Harris B. Tuttle and Allan H. Mogensen were the cameramen.
THE BIG SWIMMING POOL SCENE
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