American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

for Distinguished Achievement o BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY George Barnes, A.S.C. "Rebecca" Georges Perinal "Thief of Bagdad" Sincere Congratulations MOLE -RICHARDSON, Inc. MOTION PICTURE ELECTRICAL EOUIPMENT 941 N. Sycamore Avenue Hollywood, California not me! But, as I said before, as longas we keep on growing the future will keep opening up. More than any other picture, Fantasia shows how much the medium has grown. No doubt, some unimaginative critics will predict that in Fantasia the animated medium and my artists have reached their ultimate. The truth is quite to the contrary. Fantasia merely makes our other pictures look immature, and suggests for the first time what the future of this medium may well turn out to be. What I see way off there is too nebulous to describe. But it looks big and glittering. That's what I like about this business, the certainty that there is always something bigger and more exciting just around the bend; and the uncertainty of everything else. Over at our entertainment factory we are training hundreds of brilliant youngsters to carry on the job far beyond where we old-timers must leave off. They will train other youngsters. There is no knowing how far steady growth will take the medium, if only the technicians continue to give us new and better tools. For the near future, I can practically promise a third-dimensional effect in our moving characters. Fully exploited, Fantasound should prove a startling novelty. The full inspiration and vitality in our animators' pencil drawings will be brought to the screen in a few years through the elimination of the inking process. This is the promise of the next few years, beyond that is the future which we cannot see, today. AMONG THE MOVIE CLUBS Synchronized Sound in Philly February meeting of the Philadelphia Cinema Club showed a 16mm. Kodachrome film, "A Night in Florida," synchronized to music and speech by means of an inexpensive indicator attached to the turntable, demonstrated by the Club's Secretary, George Pittman. Other principal feature of the evening was the presentation by program-committee Chairman Francis Hirst of the recentlyannounced Eastman Kodak Co. Lecture on "What Can We Learn from the Professional Producer?" Complete analyses of the winning films in the Club's recent contest were presented, and plans were laid for attending en masse the first banquet of the nearby Trenton, N. J., Movie Club. GEORGE A. PITTMAN, Secretary. Harold E. Remier. An entertaining added feature was a special showing of a 50-foot 8mm. reel on "Common j Movie Errors," made by Thomas Griberg. \ of Moline, 111., and obtained through THE AMERICAN CLNEMATOGRAPHER on loan from the Tri-City Cinema Club of Rock Island and Moline. 111., and Davenport, la. Major features of the evening wen showing of the 16mm. Kodachrome sound-film "Sailplane," described in last month's issue of this magazine by itmaker, James H. Love, and "In All the Worl d," feature-length Kodachrome sound film of Glacier National Park filmed by William S. Yale, of St. Paul. (See P. 116.) JACQUES SHANDLER, Secretary. L. A. Sees 3-Club Exchange Show The February meeting of the Los Angeles Cinema Club was featured by exchange of films with two other clubs. The Los Angeles 8mm. Club loaned three of the prize-winning films from their Annual Contest — "Reaping the Raindrops," (Kodachrome) by Lewis B. Reed; "Blasto," (black-and-white) by Paul W. Cramer, and "Souvenir." (Kodachrome) by San Francisco Has Varied Program Features scheduled for the February meeting of the San Francisco Cinema. Club included a 400-foot Kodachrome film on "A Pack Trip in the High Sierras," by Member Fred Youngberg : 200-foot 8mm. Kodachrome film entire ly of flowers, filmed by Member H. T. Hennig; and a 600-foot. 8mm. blackand-white film made by prospective member N. Schwartz in Europe imme 142 March, 1941 American Cinematographer