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August, 1936 • American Cinematographer 337 most squeamish experience, and it was in water rather than air. A camera was mounted on the "A" Frame of a sub- marine above the conning tower. 1 stood beside it shooting forward along the length of deck to its bow and the open sea beyond. The sub drove for- ward and gradually submerged. Water washed over the deck. I kept the camera turning until the sea was above my waist and open water was on all sides. Of all the sickish, mean and thor- oughly uncomfortable feelings, I pick the experience of having a boat-deck slowly sink away under foot. Definitely, I do not care to be shipwrecked after that incident. I like this business of stunt cinema- tography. Every assignment is a thrill- ing adventure. There is na drab repeti- tious monotony. In hhe main, it is not nearly so thrilling as it seems. I stand up in an open cockpit operating a cam- era in a plummeting three-hundred- mile-an-hour plane just about as cas- ually as when on a stage floor. Producers are still striving to create new filmed thrills. Situations are evolved calling for close-up air maneu- vering. We are working closer than ever before, and therein lie the faster heartbeats for audiences—and the cine- matographer. Stars may work comfortably on sets before background transparencies. But screen, you may be sure the camera and the aerial cinematographer were in the whatever air thrills you take from the hottest spot of the excitment. Newsreeling the Political Conventions Continued from page 326 up on poles. These were swivelled around to augument the arcs turned on the crowd. As an emergency, a strip of 20,000- watt lights was placed directly over the President's platform. The main camera platform was built directly in the center of Franklin Field and only 85 feet from the speakers' stand. It was some eighteen feet high and of steel tubing so os not to interfere with delegates' view. Another camera platform was thrown up near the big arcs at the side of the field, some 140 feet from the speakers. These cameras could pan across the entire field as well as cover the speakers. At the extreme back of the topmost balcony was another platform enabling the cameras to sweep the entire sta- dium. President Roosevelt has always appreciated the widespread distribution of newsreels, was most considerate and r There is No Substitute for Sularspot Performance MOLE-RI€HABDSO]V. Inc. Oil No. Sycamore Avenue Hollywood. Calif. Eastern Representatives MITCHELL CAMERA CORP. FEARLESS PRODUCTS HARRISON FILTERS MOVIOLA STUDIOS ... it’s here ill stock! [n cur display rooms you will find New and Used Cameras, Ac- cessories, Lighting Equipment, immediately available. Phone, write or wire. Everything is thoroughly guar- anteed. Our experienced engineers, working in our own machine shop, can repair any make of camera, quickly, at low cost. Frank C. Zucker J. Burgi Contner >IOTION PICTl'KE CAMERA SI PPLY, Iiie. 7211 Sevonfh Ave. New York City Telephone BRyant 9-7755 Cable Address: Cinecamera