Home Movies (1954)

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If you have any questions or desire further information, send your requests to "Music for Your Movies", c/o Rome Movies, 6327 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood 38, Calif. — ed. ZOO MOVIE • Continued from Page 310 She noodded and almost dropped the camera. "Remember." I growled hoarsely, "if you decide to follow him with a pan — keep him in the center of the finder" Sneaking around to the upwind side of the moose, I flushed two startled deer, a covey of grouse and almost stepped on a rattlesnake. Then I was out on the lake again and shouting at the top of my voice. \^ aving my arms like a demented windmill, I charged straight at the browsing moose. \S ithout a moment's hesitation he turned and began galloping in the exact route I had expected he would. "Did you get it?" I said, returning breathlessly. "Lh huh," she replied calmly. '"Though I still don:t see why you had to chase him so darn close to me. He almost ran over me." I suddenly noticed the telephoto was on the camera. "You didn't ..." I gurgled pointing at it. ""What? Oh, thatV she tittered. "Sure. Kept it on him every step of the way. Now we'll have a real sharp close up!" He passed her at a distance of about six feet. Probably the only damn moose I'll ever see. And him blurred like a seven day eye strain. Another prime example of this sort of cooperation is the Day \^ e Lost The Monster. While living it up at the beach one summer, we began hearing rumors that a huge sea beast of unknown specie had been spotted from time to time. We asked the usual questions with the usual amount of mixed interest and disbelief, and received the usual answers which told us everything and nothing. The monster had been seen by everybody including the village idiot, but nobody happened to be carrying a camera at the time. "Sounds pretty wild to me," commented my hard headed, ultra cynical mate. "Sounds like something you might dream up after a third martini at a dull party. If there's anything resembling a sea monster around here, I'll bet my last household allowance it was born in a cavern with a Federal seal on the cap." That's the way she keeps her girlish figure. Gets all her exercise jumping at conclusions, you see. "I want to be around to watch your face when the first flying saucer lands," I said kindly. "Just for the sake of science, let's keep a weather eye open anyway." We did, but nothing occurred. A week passed and then one morning we were shooting some seals frolicking in the surf when a pasty faced youngster passed us at approximately the speed of light or slightly slower. "Vt assa'matter?" I screamed anxiously at him before he was lost to view. "Tidal wave coming?" "_\aw ! Big monster paddling around in the cove at the end of the point! Must be two-hunnert feet big!" Normally, it took us twenty minutes to reach the sheltered cove, a deep water nook protected by natural rock walls on three sides, but this time we made it in five. Once there, we peered nervously around but there was no sign of anything monstrous or otherwise; just a few lazy pelicans bobbing on the incoming swells and a rock crab or two scrabbling here and there at the water line. Ten more minutes went by bringing a flock of hungry gulls overhead, but peace and stillness was the order of the day. "Hah" crowed the wife, lifting a lip at me. "Look," I said a bit tense from the inner conviction that something was brewing. "Sometimes these things take time. You think the Disney camera crews don't have to sit and wait hours for some of those terrific scences?" Another fifteen minutes shuffled off. "Ah, nuts!" decided the wife impatiently. "How much footage left in the camera ? I see some gull nests down there on the other side of the cove. Maybe I can get a close up of the babies, if any. And that'll be a CASH for Still Photos for Home Movies Magazine COVER PICTURES $15.00 per photo for good 8 x 10 glossies, vertical composition — for cover use. 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