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Picture Possibilities in the West Indies
MARTINIQUE is the capital of the French group. If you are making the trip there during the day, you can often have the opportunity of getting effective shots of Mt. Pele, cloud capped, as you sail by. The harbor of Fort de France is usually active and there are good shots of the town from the steamer. The town itself is good for a day's work with parks, monuments and government buildings vieing for honors with the vari-colored business houses.
Kodachrome is indispensible in Martinique. Be sure to get the native women in gay-colored dresses making and selling chic Martinique dolls to the tourists. They also sell madras bandanas which they arrange on the tourists' heads with the greatest of ease.
Montserrat and St. Lucia are next but they are not outstanding since you have already seen so many other islands similar in physical aspects, customs and industry.
But St. Vincent in the Windward
By CHARLES W. HERBERT
A. S. C.
group has worthwhile attractions. Here is the center of the starch industry. Both the field harvest and the factories are picture-possibilities. Off the coast is a historic rock two hundred feet high on top of which are some cannons used in early-day defense. Scenes from here are as commanding as were the cannons.
Along the waterfront on St. Vincent you can always find one or more large schooners being built. There are many angles from which you can shoot with dramatic composition, especially when the keel and ribs are in place and before the bottom planking is laid. If you are
lucky enough to be in St. Vincent during a launching you will have a rare opportunity for a newsworthy sequence.
Should you be making a leisurely jaun: through the islands it would pay you to take a small sail-boat over to Beckway. where you can find more and larger boats being built down on the beach.
South is Grenada, the Spice Island — well named as it is the real center of the spice industry of the West Indies. Here mace, nutmeg and cocoa are raised in commercial quantities for export to many countries of the world. Color is also indispensible here. Make a trip out into the country and visit one of the plantations. Harvest-time i? busy time. There's lots of action and usually you can get all of the processes on the same plantation. Men gather tin1 spice in the forests and bring them into the drying yards. Here a large crew oi women separate the mace from the nut meg pod while other women crack th< nutmeg shell with little wooden mallets and remove the nuts too quickly for
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March, 1941
American Cinematographer