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THE FUN OF MOVIE -MAKING
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By FORD JENKINS
Do you wonder what to film ? Read what this reader has done and realise what you have missed !
1MET a fellow who was persuaded some months ago into buying a cine camera and projector and who has now almost all the accessories one could wish for, from simple portrait attacliments to elaborate editing and titling devices, to say nothing of the several kinds of exposure meters. An enthusiast, I thought, which prompted me ashing " What have you in the way of films you've taken ? " He replied that he had 100 feet of a local firework display, a couple of hundred feet of family interest, and a few feet of some sailing. His titling had not been a success and he was inclined to leave the matter at that, saying : " There is not a great deal to take, is there ? "
Eighteen months ago I took a holiday with a friend in a Hull trawler which was bound for Bear Island and the fishing gi'ounds. It was my 9.5-mm. cine camera which decided me in taking such a holiday, and I planned to get a film story of trawling.
After a glorious sea voyage along the Noi-wegian coast line to the Arctic regions and back, I returned with a reaUy quite good film of the adventure. I made illustrated titles, and when completed I was asked to show it at a banquet to " The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea." It was a distinguished gathering, ten nations were repre
Scene from " A Trawling Voyage to Bear Island, Spitzbergen " (9J-mm.). of fish just released from the trawl net
A large haul
sented, of which the Earl De La Warr was chairman. It was splendid fim, and it thrilled me to be able to interest such an audience with a film which I had taken.
This led to Press reports in the local papers as well as the Fishing News, Fish Trades Gazette, etc. The Pathescope people wrote for stills and particulars and devoted a full page in their monthly to the film. This brought enquiries from all over the country, asking if the film might be borrowed.
This film was my first attempt, and I began to think that filming was a wonderful hobby.
The publicity brought me in touch with a lady who is a chronic invalid and quit© unable to leave her bed ; in fact, she has been there for 25 years.
It was arranged that I .should fix my screen and projector in her bedroom for a show. Imagine the thrill I received when this lady told me that this was the first moving picture she had ever seen and that the birds and
Returning to Lowestoft Harbour after several nights on the herring grounds. A scene from a herring industry film