American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1961)

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M.I.S. CAMERAMAN, using Arriflex camera, photographs Dr. Irwin A. Moon walking and reacting normally while wearing image-inverting spectacles for the Moody science film, "Windows of the Soul." M.I.S. TECHNICIANS prepare a set-up for filming the valve action of the human heart, using their invention, the Cardiac Pulse Duplicator. Illumination is provided by tiny strobe light placed within the heart. SHOOTING A SCENE on one of the permanent sets on the sound stage of the Moody Institute of Science. Here Dr, Moon demonstrates a scientific theory while camera crew, using blimped Mitchell-16 camera, photographs the action. Film production equipment is the very latest. WORLD’S BIGGEST ^he conservative facade of a former Masonic Temple building in West Los Angeles gives little hint of the exciting activities which transpire within its walls. A neat bronze plate identifies the structure as the headquarters of the Moody Institute of Science, but there is no exterior clue to the fact that this is a full-scale, completely self-contained motion picture studio and film processing labora¬ tory in miniature, which performs within its own walls every operation of motion picture production except the manufacture of the film it uses. What is remarkable about the Institute is not merely the parade of superlative scientific films which it has produced in the last sixteen years, but the fact that it has constructed in its own machine shop (mostly out of scrap and war surplus ma¬ terials) scientific instruments and special purpose motion picture equipment far more advanced than are generally available on the market. The resource¬ fulness of the Institute’s relatively small but in¬ tensely dedicated staff more than compensates for the limited budget with which it works. MIS, as the organization is familiarly known, is the dream-come-true of Dr. Irwin A. Moon who, as a boy, aspired to become a physicist, but instead responded to a call to enter the ministry. As pastor of the Montecito Park Church near Los Angeles he was very much impressed with the interest shown by his youth group in the marvels of science. An ardent amateur movie-maker, he began to film sim¬ ple scientific demonstrations to point up his sermons — the recurrent theme being that the wonders of science are but the visible evidence of a Divine Plan of Creation. The Film Studio’s Beginning The response to this revolutionary wedding of science and religion was overwhelming. Dr. Moon was beseiged with invitations to show his films, not only to other congregations but to secular clubs and civic groups as well. Thus encouraged, he went to work in earnest, converting the parsonage into a veritable movie studio with the bathroom serving as laboratory. In his bedroom he set up a camera 480 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER