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AMERICAN C I N E M AT 0 G R A PH E R
Eleven
Amateur Camera makes Intimate Shots Possible
Professional Cinematography Aided by Small Portable Outfits, Experience Shows
By
Charles Q. Clarke
A.S.C.
Portability Lends Self to Close Range Shooting in Chases and the Like
BASICALLY a camera is an instrument appears within a certain angle before it. each observer in the audience the view h pied by the camera.
The greater part of our observing or "seeing" is done while the body is still, so the most of the scenes taken for a motion picture are made from a stationary and rigid tripod, when the scene should convey to the observer that, figuratively, he was not in motion while that scene was enacted.
Moving Shots For those scenes made from the viewpoint of a person traveling, the cameras are mounted on traveling vehicles of different forms. The average professional motion picture camera weighs about 70 pounds, so extreme portability was impossible until the advent recently of the "Eymo" Camera and others of its type. Many startling effects may be obtained by placing the camera (therefore, the observer) on rapidly moving objects, or from unusual view-points, such as
that records photographically the scene that
The finished picture on the screen shows to
e would see if he were on the same spot occu
from a pit under an onrush of stampeding cattle, etc. Heretofore the size and weight of the camera had limited the making of these effective shots.
Horseback In one of my recent pictures the action called for a gun fight between two persons while riding horses — one was riding away from the other, firing back at him the while. His eyes, while centered on the rider behind him, recorded the ground, brush, etc., rushing away from him, and also the up and down movements of the galloping horse. To show the audience the things that happened before the man's eyes, I rode a horse at a gallop while operating a portable camera centered on the rider behind who repeated his actions for me as he had done in the establishing Shot. (Continued on Page 19)
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Illustrating latest model of the Eastman Cine-Kodak, Model B, with the new f. 3-5 lens which has been added to the equipment.
Showing the new Eastman Kodascope. Illumination and power for motor drive supplied from ordinary electric light socket.