Camera secrets of Hollywood : simplified photography for the home picture maker (1931)

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have to be given to getting natural action into liis subjects, be they groups of people, landscapes or average scenes of travel. Action can be found everywhere, however, if one will look for it and study how to use it. Even a still picture can be chock full of the spirit of action and movement. Persona] experience has shown that some of my best pictures with the movie camera were scenes that I also wanted to make a still photograph of, and a good observation is that if it isn't good enough for a still picture it isn't good enough for a movie. You can find action anywhere; in the ocean, in lakes, rivers, waterfalls, the wind in trees, movements of clouds, in the recording of events, the registering of sports, children at play (which is one of the best subjects), animals, and scenes from moving objects. Photographing from moving objects immediately brings to mind one of the most frequent experiences of the average vacationist in attempting to record scenes from his train as it passes a beautiful or an interesting spot. Unfortunately it is rarely possible to get on the front of the train which is the best place from which to photograph, and scenes shot from the side or rear are seldom satisfactory. The camera should be headed toward the picture, the scene coming toward you instead of receding into the distance. At best it is usually very difficult to get good scenes from moving trains unless using the Avidest angle of lens to do away with as much of the vibration as possible. The same idea of having the scene coming toward you applies to taking pictures from moving automobiles, but not to boats, because from the stern of a boat you have the wake of the ship at the bottom of the picture, forming attractive patterns, and there will probably be clouds, without which you would scarcely have a reason for making a pictorial background anyway. Making films from boats calls to mind one of the exceptional times Avhen taking pictures from the hand is preferable to the [43 1