American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1952)

G0ER2 GOERZ LENSES for MOVIES and TELEVISION HYPAR W-l-D-E ANGLE ANASTIGMAT F:2.7 Focal length: 15 mm and longer APOGOR ANASTIGMAT F:2.3 Focal length: 35 mm, 50 mm, 75 mm These fine lenses are made by skilled technicians with many years of opti¬ cal training. Designed for use in 16 and 35 mm film cameras, they are corrected for all aberrations at full opening and give highest definition in black-and-white and color. For illustrated catalog and complete details write Dept. AC-1. Quality Lens for over half a century C. P. GOERZ AMERICAN OPTICAL COMPANY | Office and Factory 317 EAST 34th STREET NEW YORK 16, N. Y. Hollywood Bulletin Board VIRGIL MILLER, ASC, (left) is congratulated by Fred Jackman, ASC, for "job well done," follow¬ ing screening of "Navajo." Miller filmed it. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRA¬ PHERS, at its November meeting, was host to director of photography Virgil Miller, ASC, and Hall Bartlett, cine¬ matographer and producer respectively of the documentary feature production, “Navajo.'’ The picture, which has garn¬ ered raves for its photography, was screened for ASC members and guests. Also sharing honors as the Society’s guests were Toshio Ubakata, Japanese cinematographer and his American representative, Fred Ota. Mr. Ubakata demonstrated a two-part reel of color film which he photographed in Japan using the new Japanese-made Fuji Pro¬ cess reversible 35mm color film — a product said to he similar in character to Ansco Color film. • ROBERT HOAG, cinematographer in the duping and optical printing department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, was admitted to membership in the Ameri¬ can Society of Cinematographers last month. Admitted as Associate Members were John Bishop, who recently suc¬ ceeded Ray Wilkinson as head of the camera department at Paramount Stu¬ dio; 0. W. Murray of Cinecolor Corpo¬ ration, Burbank; and Harry Pratt, as¬ sistant to E. 0. Blackburn of W. J. German, Inc., Hollywood. • KARL FREUND, ASC, who received an SMPTE Fellowship Award at the Soci¬ ety’s 72nd Semi-Annual Convention in Washington, D.C., last October, address¬ ed members of the SMPTE’s Pacific Coast Section in San Francisco during the Section’s three-day get-together November 23-26. Freund’s talk embrac¬ ed the shooting of live action TV shows on motion picture film, based on his experiences in photographing the “I Love Lucy” and “Our Miss Brooks” TV shows for Desilu Productions, Holly¬ wood. • CHARLES G. CLARKE, ASC, one day last month returned to the scene of his earli¬ est triumph when he filmed sequences with Dale Robertson and Lloyd Bridges at Vasquez Rocks, in Southern Cali¬ fornia, for a forthcoming 20th CenturyFox western. It was exactly 20 years earlier to the day that Clarke had photo¬ graphed the late Tom Mix at the same locale for “Destry Rides Again.” Re¬ calling the incident were Clarke’s ini¬ tials inscribed on the face of a sand¬ stone rock back in 1932. • DON NORWOOD, ASC, inventor of the incident light exposure meter which bears his name, has developed a revo¬ lutionary new exposure meter for flash photography, said to be the first of its kind. Tradenamed the Norwood Flashrite exposure meter, device is to be manufactured and marketed by Director Products Corporation, makers of the original Norwood meter. • JOHN SEITZ, ASC, last month completed the photography of National Pictures’ color thriller, “Invader From Mars.” Picture marks first use in Hollywood for a feature production of a new 35mm color negative for incandescent light — a film stock not yet generally available. Results, which Seitz obtained with the new film, are said to be highly grati¬ fying. JOSEPH BIROC, ASC, who photographed the stereofilm, “Bwana Devil,” has been signed to direct the photography of “Harness Bull,” for Sequoia Pictures, Hollywood. • NICK MUSURACA, ASC, whose home lot is RKO, now temporarily inactive, is currently at Motion Picture Center Studios where he is directing the pho¬ tography of Alex Gottlieb’s “The Blue Gardenia,” starring Anne Baxter. • ALFRED GILKS, ASC, last month com¬ pleted the photography for Wilding Pictures of a color production featuring the new 1953 line of Chrysler automo¬ biles. Photographed on Eastman 35mm color negative, the production was pro¬ cessed by Pathe Laboratories, Holly¬ wood. 514 American Cinematographer December, 1952