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Chapter VIII
FILMS FOR PROFIT
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ness, whether he is in the advertising department, a sales official, factory superintendent or a laboratory or research worker, will find so many things to picturize in connection with his work, that in addition to, or in conjunction with the professional-made films which his company is likely to use, he will find great enjoyment as well as utility and experience in the movies lie will make himself.
The advantage1 which the amateur movie-maker has over the professional in making pictures in many lines of business and manufacture is that he is right on the ground and knows intimately the business with which he is connected. \\y being on the spot every day he can see things and will know what points to bring out, and he will be there at the time when it is possible to make a picture which might otherwise necessitate keeping a camera staff on Land over a long period of time.
A good example of a business man making a typical industrial film is tbe experience of an official of the Symington Company, in which he secured some1 very interesting views with a sixteen millimeter camera of the detailed workings of a special type of railway car coupling, and the different phases of its mechanical action as the cars of a train were in actual motion on curved and straight tracks. This demonstration picture, in a few minute's running time, made1 it possible for a person to get a clearer grasp of just what this coupling dot's than it would have been possible to obtain by a personal demonstration. And the latter would have taken much time and travel, besides.
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