We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
290 American Cinematographer • July, 1938
Australian Amateurs Progressive
By GEORGE BLAISDELL
MOVIE NEWS, official organ of the Australian Amateur Cine Society, for May has reached the Cinematofirapher's sanctum. Edited by F. W. Pratt, the booklet consists of 12 5Vi by 8% inch pages and four covers. It reflects credit on its makers, with its text pages of eight-point type and its reproduction of a full-page still picture exposed on location.
The picture was made while a troupe was filming the present picture of .lame?!
A. Sherlock, "Nation's Builders." There is a suspicion on the desk where this is being written that the grand prize winner of The American Cinematographer contest in 1937 already is "laying his pipes" to bring a first-class headache to other contenders throughout the world for the Cinematographer's 1938 award.
"Nation's Builders"' to to be a story of the first 1.^0 years of Australia as a nation. The subject is in the top of the minds of the men and women who live
in the Great Island just now, for the 150th Anniversary Celebration has just drawn to a close.
As the editor of the Movie News intimates, "its closing left most of us with a wealth of film." But coming back to that Sherlock picture for 1938, as an indication of the care being expended on its making the historical sequences are being directed by Frank Brooks, who has undertaken much research to make sure the costumes, make-up and action are authentic.
In April members of the A. A. C. S. motored to Katoomba and Mount York to film Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth on their journey over the Blue Mountains, and a realistic film of Australia's first successful exploration party resulted.
On Sunday, May 1.5, the same party went to BXirragorang Valley to film
Tliis is neither a shot out of Alaska, as was surmised by Frank Good, A.S.C. secretary, who was in that country within the year at the head of a Paramount camera crew, nor is it one out of Scotlaivd as suggested by a photographic dealer. It is an afternoon exposure across Bouquet Canyon Reservoir, easily ivithin a couple of score miles of Los Angeles.
The lake is a creation of the last half dozen years, designed to replace the body of tvater that was dissipated when the not so remote San Francisquito Dam went out — with the loss of several hundred lives and much p^roperty.
The spot is worthy the attention of camera addicts — • both motion picture and still. Bouquet Canyon parallels Mint Canyon, main highway from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert, a country rich in photographic rwaterial. To those residents of Los Angeles who may not be aware of this particular section's existence, its camera possibilities, as well as to the legion of tourists who may detour to the City of the Angels in the course of a visit to San Francisco's Exposition next year, we recommend the inclusion of this picturesque combination of desert and mountain in the itinerary.
The camera was hand held against a breeze that noticeably rippled the waters of the lake — and the more than gentle roar from which was weirdly and impressively audible in the otherwise silences of the desert hills.
Photographed by the editor. Photo finish by Pat Clark.