American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1924)

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Eighteen AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER June, 1924 The ACTING, the STORY INTEREST, —and PHOTOGRAPHIC QUALITY are each Essential to a Masterpiece The Photographic Success of any Picture is Insured by the Brilliancy and Durability of STANDARD PRINTS The Standard Way in Hollywood Sfanaard "jRhn Laboratories Phone Hoi? y wood VSG6. Seward and 'ftamaino Sbveti Hollywood California In fact, the location of the building at Hollywood Boulevard and Ivar streets is being hailed. as Hollywood's "Seventh and Broadway" — which is significant to those familiar with Los Angeles real estate, the intersection in question being the busiest in the metropolis of the West. Loew's State theatre is located at this point. KLIEG EYES FOREVER? (Continued from page 7) w&s a comparatively rare malady. The safe course to follow today would be to promote the use of more sunlight with a minimum of extreme artificial lighting that is focused directly upon the individual or concentrated upon a small area. More daylight work and less night lighting has also been suggested as a relief measure. In Southern California even ordinary daylight is rich in ultra-violet. With the white roads, white buildings, beaches and open air life, a program of conservation of vision is considered essential, especially among those whose occupation forces them to face extreme lighting assemblages. Optometrical Relief Many optometrists and oculists are prescribing Crookes tinted lenses for men and women outside the picture profession, not only for relief from glare, but as a precautionary measure. The wearing of good quality lenses that filter ultraviolet from daylight or artificial light is to be encouraged. The Noviol and the Crookes have been proven the best by every test. The Crookes is more pleasant to wear and not unsightly like the Canary-colored Noviol, and has therefore achieved popularity in all tropical, and semitropical regions, at beach resorts and among all who have learned to eliminate discomfort and danger from potentially harmful super-brilliant light. SHOOTING SHEIK-STUFF ON THE SAHARA DESERT (Continued from page 6) Lytell contracted the African fever and was out for two weeks, losing 20 pounds in weight, all of which was not so easy for the cinematographer when Lytell picked up the later sequences. In Touggourt I learned that I could not withstand the effects of the change of water and the sudden change of temperature. The first afternoon there found me very sick indeed but I could not feel myself in duty bound to heed the urgings of Mr. Carewe to retire to the hotel, and so we were able to finish the day's shooting without mishap. Sanitary Conditions Primitive The sanitary conditions in the African towns we visited were not of the best and we had to be continually on guard. Three times a day we washed our eyes in boric water as a protection against the flies which are of a much more phlegmatic variety than those with which we are acquainted in this country. As Victor Milner, A. S. O, once mentioned in one of his articles, the Arabs will not disturb them but allow them to prey up