American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1926)

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October, 1926 A M KR1C AN CINEMATOGRAPHER Twenty-three The public will never know the rest. They will have seen the pictures on the screen and wonder mildly how they were gotten. But they will not know that the man who took them, forgetting everything else, hunger, cold, discomfort, physical pain, loss of sleep and all the incidental tragedies of working under such conditions, had just seen the loss of a year's work with a valuation of approximately thirty-thousand dollars worth of pictures. Gone never to be replaced and by the same hurricane that was to add to his stature and reputation as a daring operator. For almost one year Earle has been working in Miami on a series of pictures for the Chamber of Commerce of that city and for Pathe. Now he must start the work all over again. But in the hospital with the bulliest pluck in the world, he merely said: "Oh, well; it's all part of the game; it might be worse." That's all. Part of the tradition of the craft and why they make good. The Japanese earthquake did the same thing to his work of a year in the land of the Mikado, destroying one of the finest laboratories the Far East has ever seen, only a few days after it had been completed. By now, Earle's philosophy is not a temporal thing; it is part of his make-up. "It might be worse," as a slogan, might fittinglv be borrowed bv some of the rest of us. Robert Kurrle, A. S. C, is finishing the cinematography on the Fox production, "On the Wings of the Storm." Henry Sharp, A. S. C, is hard at work on the Metro-Goldwyn-Maxer production, "Mysterious Island." * * * * George Schneiderman, A. S. C, has left for New York City, where he will photograph a Fox production, directed by Al Green, at the William Fox New York studios. * * * * Due to a typographical error, the name of the author of the story on amateur cinematography appearing on page eleven of this issue — H. Syril Dusenbery — is misspelled. LEITZ DISTANCE METER "FODIS"— PHOTO-TELEMETER Completely solves the biggest difficulty in hand camera work. "A necessity for the Cinematographer." For hand cameras, $11.00. For Motion Picture Cameras, $15.50, in genuine leather case. 1. "FODIS" is the only reliable Photo Distance Meter. Absolutely accurate. 2. Determines d i s tance of objects automatically. Simple in use. Write For Pamphlet No. 2090 60 East i E. LEITZ NE^ORK 10th Street Western Agents — Spindler & Sauppe 86 Third Street SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho Utah, Montana and Arizona FOR RENT Two Bell & Howell Cameras — 40, 50, 75 mm. lenses. Thalhammer Iris. Jeanne Trebaol, 10042 Stilson Ave., corner of Clarington, Falms, Calif. Phone: Culver City 3243. SAVE MONEY BY INVESTIGATING AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER'S Clubbing Arrangements ^ with CAMERA CRAFT and PHOTO-ERA #