The American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1946)

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ray June, “But Not Goodbye,” with Frank Morgan and Keenan Wynn. Charles Salerno, Jr., “Faithful in My Fashion,” with Donna Reed, Tom Drake, Edward Everett Horton, and Spring Byington. Sid Wagner, “Fiesta” (Technicolor), with Esther Williams and John Carroll. Hal Rosson, “Three Wise Fools,” with Margaret O’Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Edward Arnold and Thomas Mitchell. Monogram Harry Neumann, “West of the Alamo,” with Jimmy Wakely. William Sickner, “The Shadows Shad¬ ow,” with Kane Richmond, Barbara Reed. Paramount Ray Rennahan, “California” (Techni¬ color), starring Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald. Russell Metty, “The Perfect Mar¬ riage,” (Hal Wallis Prod.) with Loretta Young, David Niven, Nona Giffith, Vir¬ ginia Field. Lionel Lindon, “O. S. S.,” with Alan Ladd, Geraldine Fitzgerald. RKO SCtudios Robert de Grasse, “Crack-Up” with Pat O’Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Mar¬ shall, Wallace Ford. Leo Tovar, “Desirable Woman,” with Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford, Virginia Huston. Roy Hunt, “A Likely Story,” with Bill Williams, Barbara Hale. George Barnes, “Sister Kenny,” with Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger. 20th Century-Fox Ernest Palmer, “Three Little Girls in Blue” (Technicolor), with June Haver, Vivian Blaine, George Montgomery, Frank Latimore. Harry Jackson, “Strange Triangle,” with Signe Hasso, John Sheppard, Anabel Shaw. Leon Shamroy, “The Shocking Miss Pilgrim” (Technicolor), starring Betty Gable and Dick Haymes. Arthur Miller, “Anna and the King of Siam,” starring Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison, with Linda Darnell and Gale Sondergaard. Joseph La Shelle, “Cluny Brown,” with Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, Helen Walker, Sir Aubrey Smith. Glen MacWilliams, “It Shouldn’t Hap¬ pen to a Dog,” with Carole Landis, Allyn Joslyn, Henry Morgan. Charles Clarke, “Margie,” (Techni¬ color) with Jeanne Crain, Alan Young, Glenn Langan, Lynn Bari, Hattie Mc¬ Daniel, Esther Dale. United Artists Lucien Androit, “The Strange; Woman,” (Mars Film Corp.) with Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart. James Van Trees, “Me and Mr. Satan,” (Premier Prods) with Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains. Karl Strauss, “Mr. Ace and the Queen,” (Tivoli Prods) with George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Sid Silvers. Universal Hal Mohr, “Shahrazad,” (Technicolor) with Yvonne De Carlo, Brian Donlevy, Jean Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden. George Robinson, “Love Takes a Holi¬ day,” with Joan Davis, Jack Oakie, Mischa Auer. Warner Brothers James Wong Howe, “The Sentence,” with Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith. Arthur Edeson, “Two Guys From Milwaukee,” with Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, S. Z Sakall. Ernest Haller, “Humoresque,” starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield; with Oscar Levant, Ruth Nelson. Aerial Mapping War Aid Post-war aerial photography pro¬ grams of government agencies and com¬ mercial users are far expanded over pre¬ war days, it was revealed at the annual meeting of the American Society of Photogrammetry, in Washington (Jan. 1618). Speakers pointed out that because 90 per cent of U. S. military intelligence during World War II was secured from aerial photos, photogrammetry — the science of using these photos to make maps and charts — has a bright future. Gerald FitzGerald of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, who, as an Air Forces colonel during the war brought the system of trimetrogon photography — using three wide-angle aerial cameras in synchronization to take horizon-tohorizon pictures — to perfection, was elected the new president of the Society. Vice president is Revere G. Sanders of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, who was also honored with the Society’s Abrams Award for a paper he had written on stereoscopy. Bolex Camera Reported Stolen American Bolex Company broadcasts information on theft of a Bolex camera in Chicago on Dec. 16th, 1945, from auto of William Parker Ward. Dealers and others are asked to watch for possible offering of sale of the cam¬ era, described as a 16 mm. Bolex, No. 13136, with a one inch lens No. 452586, 17 mm. fixed focus f2.7, General Electric light meter, and other equipment. Any information on the camera should be directed to either the owner, William Parker Ward, 10 South LaSalle St., Chi¬ cago 3, Ill., or F. M. Cascaden at Amer¬ ican Bolex Co., 521 Fifth Ave., New York. 64 February, 1946 • American Cinematographer