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AMERICAN
Cinematographer November, 1 959
Vol. 40, No. 11
ARTHUR E. GAVIN
Editor
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Marion Hutchins
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Derek Hill Joseph Henry Clifford Harrington Joseph V. Mascelli Herb A. Lightman
TECHNICAL EDITOR
Emery Huse
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Arthur Edeson, A.S.C. Robert deGrasse, A.S.C. Burnett Guffey, A.S.C. Vi/allace Kelley, A.S.C. Arthur Miller, A.S.C. Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. John Seitz, A.S.C.
Lester Shorr, A.S.C.
ON THE COVER
THE FAMOUS Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau, Alaska, and the iceberg-dotted lake fed from it forms background for love scene with Ray Danton and Diane McBaine for Warner Brothers' “Ice Palace," photographed by Joseph Biroc, A.S.C., in center foreground, holding meter. Others, from left, are: Gil Kissell, assistant director, George Nogle, operative cameraman; Elmer Faubian, assis¬ tant cameraman; and Director Vincent Sherman.
•Feature Articles
NEW, FAST REVERSAL COLOR FILM
New Eastman motion picture film offers commercial producers high-speed material for color productions.
SEVEN SCREENS FOR MOSCOW
How America’s unique multiple-screen film presentation for the Moscow Fair was conceived, produced and staged. By Herb A. Lightman.
COLOR IN MOTION PICTURES AND TV — Part III
New problems arise when color productions are filmed in the usual way for exhibition on television. By Robert Allen Mitchell.
TRAVELING MATTES IN COLOR
The sodium lamp method employed in British studios utilizes panchromatic film for the matte negative. By Robert L. Hoult.
“NOHA’S ARK” — WALT DISNEY’S FIRST NON-CARTOON ANIMATED FILM
Industry’s foremost animation studio tries a new tack in animated entertainment films, tvith high success. By Arthur Rowan.
2-MIKE CONVENIENCE WITH A 1-MIKE AMPLIFIER
How the single-channel Cine-Voice amplifier was modified to handle two microphones for newsreel work. By George J. Yarbrough.
MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS: THE AURICON PRO-600
Description of salient features of a versatile, lightweight single-system sound camera that is ideal for in-plant industrial film production as well as newsreel filming.
INDUSTRIAL FILMS NEED PRODUCTION VALUE, TOO
How the same quality given feature films can enhance business and industrial films for greater audience appeal. By Darrin Scot.
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•Departments
INDUSTRY NEWS 646
News briefs of industry activities and progress.
HOLLYWOOD BULLETIN BOARD 652
WHAT’S NEW IN EQUIPMENT, ACCESSORIES, SERVICES 656
Things that are new for makers of motion pictures.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSIGNMENTS — By Marion Hutchins 662
Where and what TV and feature cameramen were shooting last month.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS — By Walter Strenge, A.S.C. 666
Readers’ questions ansivered by experts.
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