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

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stock at the height of the season when in full foliage and these pictures were used in mid-winter to visualize to buyers their landscaping requirements for later months. Perhaps one of the greatest opportunities for the moviemaker in industry is in connection with the manufacture or sale of heavy machinery and equipment. It is naturally impossible to send around samples of cranes, ditch-digging machinery, road-making equipment, conveyors and mechanical engines of all kinds; it is even impractical for local dealers to carry full lines of many types of machinery in stock. But it is quite easy to take pictures of such equipment in operation and send these films all over the world. An interesting use of the camera in business is the making of progressive pictures showing great construction projects as they develop over a period of time. Such a picture is now being made of a huge power dam project which will be years in the building, the pictures being useful to show to the public which the particular utility company serves, also as a demonstration by the construction company itself of the magnitude of the project and the methods of work, something which would be impossible to do thoroughly and quickly without months of study on the job itself. The camera in business has been found to be of special importance in world-wide trade, either to carry abroad the pictures and explanations of local manufacture and products, or to gather abroad scenes of cultivation of products or the making of them to show to consumers here. There is a good opportunity for those engaged in church, benevolent and missionary work to utilize a camera in picturing the activities of tin1 organization. How useful it might be in raising funds for foreign hospital and missionary activities to picture in simple form the work which is going on in those places and ran the film in the home churches. A worker in the foreign field with a fifty -dollar camera can take1 pictures which might result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in beneficences 66