Amateur movie making (1928)

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN ANALYTIC AND INSTRUCTION RECORD WORK The record film may be one of such an infinite variety of subjects that it is difficult to choose those which should be mentioned and those which should not. While the substandard film is of great and undeniable value in many kinds of business and professional activities, such uses of the substandard film are hardly appropriate for inclusion in the present volume. We are now solely concerned with the motion picture camera as a companion in our moments of relaxation and pleasure. Of course, most of the principles set forth in this book can and should be applied to any form of substandard motion photography, but we cannot consider the actual details of commercial work here. Sports. — Few of us are primarily cinematographers, although the writer must plead guilty to the charge. Most owners of motion pictures are devoted to some particular sport or hobby and many of them have been introduced to the pleasure of motion photography by this sport. There is no question but what the motion camera is of great value to any sportsman, either as a means of recording the pleasures attendant upon such sport, or as a means of criticism and instruction. We may arbitrarily divide some of the major sports into these classes : The organized and exhibition sports such as football, basketball, baseball and polo. The individual sports such as archery, fencing, golf, tennis, swimming and dancing and field sports such as hunting, fishing and shooting. Other sports may be placed in one or another of the three classes. The exhibition sports necessitate two phases of activity, the training or preparation and the culmination of this training period in the actual occurrence. In work of 326