American cinematographer (Jan-Oct 1925)

Eight AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER January, 1925 Paul Perry, A. S. C, before he departed to Arizona with Bert Glennon, A. S. C, on the deer drive location trip, had just returned from a lengthy location jaunt into the Northwest with Douglas MacLean productions. * * • George Barnes, A. S. C, is finishing the camera work on the Cosmopolitan production, "Zander the Great," which, starring Marion Davies, is being made at the United Studios, Hollywood. * * * H. Lyman Broening, A. S. C, has completed the cinematography on the latest Erb production made at the F. B. O. studios, Hollywood. * * * Reginald Lyons, A. S. C, will leave shortly on a vacation trip to San Francisco. Is the rumor true that Reggie is about to add some more foreign cars to his string? * * * Stephen S. Norton, A. S. C, has been entrusted with important set-ups on the big scenes in "The Phantom of the Opera," which Charles Van Enger is filming for Universal. * * * Frank B. Good, A. S. C, is filming the latest John M. Stahl production at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, Culver City. Harry Hartz, one of Frank's proteges of the roaring road, drove a daredevil race and ran away with second money at the recent big automobile race at Culver City. King Gray, A. S. C, has been doing some speedy work on "Speed," which Edward Le Saint is directing at the F. B. O. studios. King called in Hans Koenekamp, A. S C, for an extra set-up on some of the big passages of the production. Robert Kurrle, A. S. d is completng the cinematography on Henry King's latest production which is being filmed at the United Studios. Kenneth McLean, A. S. C, has returned to Hollywood from Rome where he did special effect work for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, "Ben Hur." * * * Victor Milner, A. S. C, has finished Paramount's "East of Suez," starring Pola Negri and directed by R. A. Walsh. * * * Floyd Jackman, A. S. C, drops a note from Moapa, Ncv., lauding the beauties of the desert and the mountains in Nevada and Utah where he is filming scenes for "Rex, the Wild Stallion," the latest production of Fred Jackman, A. S. C, for the Hal E. Roach studios. ''We have had," Floyd writes, "almost every known variety of weather, sometimes all in the same day. Crawling out of your tent and breaking the ice on the water is great sport — maybe, but it surely drvies the sleep out of your eyes." Faxon Dean, A. S. C, is in Birmingham, Ala., for the filming of location scenes for the latest Thomas Meighan production for Paramount. With him is Philip H. Whitman, A. S. C. Production headquarters on the Meighan picture are in New Yok City. * * # Herford Tynes Cowling, A. S. C, having returned from his latest swing around the globe, is now in Chicago, where are located the headquarters of Round-the-World Travel Pictures. Dan Clark, A. S. C, is shooting a lot of frills and furbelows these days since "Dick Turpin," the latest Tom Mix vehicle for Fox, is in the nature of a costume production. J. G. Blystone is directing and Katherine Meyers is leading lady. * * * Ernest Haller, A. S. C, is finishing the cinematography on "Parisian Nights," a Gothic production directed by Al Santell. The cast includes Lou Telegen, Elaine Hammerstein, Rene Adoree and Gaston Glass. * * * Al Gilks, A. S. C, has begun work on "The Aair Mail," Irvin Willat's next production for Paramount, the story being by Byron Morgan. The cast includes Billie Dove and Warner Baxter. Al has about ten day's work around the air mail hangars at Reno, Nev., after which he goes to the "ghost city" of Rhyolite, Nev., where two or three weeks will be spent "camping" in one of the deserted school buildings in the town. Mitchell Cameras, Equipment Go to Studios in Germany American cameras and equipment will go to one of the most important producing centers on continental Europe as the result of a $10,000 deal consummated between the Mitchell Camera Corporation, of Hollywood, and the German producing organization, Ufa Films, of Berlin. During the past month arrangements were concluded between Henry Boeger, of the Mitchell company, and representatives of the German producers whereby the Mitchell outfits will enter the German studios. The outfits include two camera units with all built-in features, ten magazines, two universal finders, two extension arms, two matte cutters, two sunshades, two tripod bases, two tripod heads, two camera cases, three magazine cases, two baby tripods and two Gimbal tripods.