Business Screen Magazine (1965-1966)

CARROLL BAKER AS "HARLOW" Unusual Short Film Promotes Major Release on TV AN Unuslal Short Film titled Carroll Baker as Harlow was released February 1st to selected television stations. This film was made in connection with Harkm . a major motion picture based on the life of one of Hollywoods greatest screen stars, which is being pri>duced by Joseph F. Levine for release in June by Paramount Pictures. The production of Carroll Baker .4? Harlow b\ Turtlclaub & Moss, Carroll Baker /jo.u.s In j tin ^laiit photo of tin late Jean Harlow. Inc., involved several unique features. The entire movie was filmed on board the Oucen Mary cnroute to England. Riibert Whittaker, head cameraman, obtained some very stylistic i and creative effects from shots of I Carroll silhouetted against the sea I and sky, as she strolled about the I ship and studied her upcoming role. Director Stanley Turtletaub achieved a remarkable air of sponj taneity by keeping the script to a I minimum and allowing Carroll to i ad lib informally about her prob! lems with the Harlow part and her I methods of preparing herself physically and psychologically for it. In a detailed 8 '/2 -minute sequence the film shows the intricate make-up procedures which arc I used in aiding Carroll as she bei comes the living image of Jean I Harlow. The camera follows careI fully as expert hair stylist Nellie I Mann of Paramount creates a hair style of the 30's to complete Car1 roll's transformation. Then, lookI ing like "The Platinum Blonde" j herself. Carroll attends a gala shipI board party in her honor w hich ] recalls the glitter and glamour of Harlow's colorful era. Available in two lengths, the film is tailor-made to fit into var ious r\' formats — either as a five-minute segment in a live show or as a quarter hour film program, complete in itself. The five-minute \ersion diK's not have the detailed make-up scenes, but it does offer a candid over-all explanation of how an actress assumes a new character and appearance. L'nlike many sponsored films which have an aura of timelessness abtiut them to insure years of circulation. Carroll Baker As Harlow is being distributed on a crash program basis, from February through May, to the top 125 television markets in the country. It is available on free loan from Sterling Movies U.S.A., Inc. in New York. * * * Donates Hi.sloric Cameras to UCLA's D.pl. ol Thealtr .\rls ■.'■ A large collection of early photographic and motion picture apparatus has been given to LJCL-A's Department of Iheatcr Arts. Mrs. Joyce Primrose ShawKennedy made the donation in memory of her father, Hugh Vernon Primrose Shaw-Kennedy. The collection includes over 80 cameras, most from the late 19th century, as well as very early exposure meters, lenses, flashguns, arc lamps, stereoscopic viewers and developing apparatus. All of the pieces are scarce, and some are exceedingly rare. • TO GIVE PRODUCERS TOP QUALITY NATIONWIDE SCRIPT WRITING SERVICE AT LOWER COST . . . BRUCE HENRY IS NOW MOBILE Inquiries addressed to Bruce Henry, Victory Heights, Stone Lake 2, Wisconsin 54876 will be forwarded promptly to his "land yacht" Mobile Office, wherever it may be. For the BEST in Products and Services Look to BUSINESS SCREEN! • creative productions • complete producers services • studio soundrecording • animation — graphic arts • still photography • editing— titling • complete laboratory • complete mobile video tape unit with 6 camera chains • VTR transfer REELA FILMS JNG. A DIVISION OF WOMETCO ENTERPRIStS, INC. 17N.W. Third St., Miami, Florida Phone: FR 4-2108 ARITt FOR FREE CATALOG NUWBER 1 • VOLUME 26 • 1965