International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Two The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER March, 1929 The International Photographer Published monthly by LOCAL No. 659 I. A. T. S. E. and M. P. M. O. of the United States and Canada IRA B. HOKE Editor ARTHUR REEVES Advertising Manager CHARLES P. BOYLE Treasurer Entered as third class matter February 13, 1929, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under the provisions of Section 435]2 Postal Laws and Regulations. Permit No. 1997. Office of Publication 428 MARKHAM BUILDING 6372 Hollywood Boulevard HEmpstead 1128 Hollywood, California The Sound Track General Meeting The date of the next general meeting will be announced by postal card. o Change of Address Notify the Local office immediately of any change in your address or telephone number. o Location Notice Members leaving town on location must notify the Local office as soon as they know definite details of the intended trip. When reporting, it is essential that you give names of entire camera crew, place of location, and length of time you expect to be out of town. Co-operation with the Local on this matter is the only way in which you can expect the protection of this Union while you are out of the city. o Local No. 644, New York, has moved headquarters. Their new address is 233 West 42nd street, Suite 606-610. o Initiation Increases The increase in initiation fees which went into effect on February 14, renders classifications as follows: First Cameramen .....$500.00 Akelev Cameramen 500.00 First "Process 500.00 Second Cameramen 250.00 Still Photographers . .... 250.00 Second Process 250.00 Assistant Cameramen. ... 125.00 News Cameramen 100.00 Industrial Cameramen.. 25.00 Available List Never, until the formation of Local No. 659, have the cameraworkers of the Pacific Coast had a central office, or guiding head. They were alone in their quest of employment, unknown and unvalued. Today, through careful organization and wise Local government, the cameramen enjoy the finest employment medium that has ever been available to them. For the first time since the inception of the picture industry a definite value has been placed upon the services of the cameraman. Our business representative accurately files each member as he reports himself available for duty. Members names are then taken from this list for employment in the order, by date, of their application for work. Studio managers upon placing a call for men of any classification are thus immediately supplied with competent men. That studio managers realize the efficiency of our Local is proved by the number of men employed through this office. Every studio in the city avails itself of this service to the mutual benefit of all. Notary A notary public is now available in the offices of the International Photographers, Suite 428 Markham building. o I. A. By-Laws We still have left a few copies of the Twenty-Ninth Convention Proceedings of the International Alliance, as well as the Thirty-Second Edition of the I. A. Constitution and By-Laws, in the Local office which have not yet been distributed. If you have not yet received yours come in and get them at once. o Union Periodicals Brother Maurice Hall is the official subscription representative of The Los Angeles Citizen, for Local No. 659. The Los Angeles Citizen is the weekly bulletin of Union happenings, and Brother Hall assures us that if subscribed to will prove intensely interesting to members of Local No. 659. Besides representing the Los Angeles Citizen, Brother Hall will place your subscriptions for any Union made magazines. Call him at either GLadstone 4203 or HEmpstead 1128. The International Photographer while primarily the house bulletin of Local No. 659, enjoys the distinction of being placed monthly in the hands of more than 1,000 photographic workers of the Motion Picture Industry. The members of this Local, together with those of our sister Locals, No. 644 in New York, No. 666 in Chicago, and No. 665 in Toronto, represent the entire personnel of photographers now engaged in professional production of motion pictures in the United States and Canada. This condition renders The International Photographer a voice of an ENTIRE CRAFT, covering a field that reaches from coast to coast across the nation. Brother Herrmann Is Live Wire The arm of the International is long. Early in February several cameramen on location with Pathe high in the mountains near Lake Tahoe were somewhat surprised to find that our steward of the northern territory, Brother John L. Herrmann, was on hand to check cards. The card numbers and names of cameramen holding them were promptly forwarded to this office. The Pathe boys were as follows : Brothers Jacob Baderacco, Vernon Larson, Roy W. Noble, and Wm. H. Dietz. On February 17, Brother Herrmann was on hand to check over the boys from Universal, working on location in the Yosemite valley. He found all members in good standing as follows — Brothers Geo. H. Robinson, John Hickson, Joe Harris, Geo. G. Trafton, Wm. Dodds and Wm. J. Shuck. o Brother Jackson Eagan is now at Atascadero recovering from a recurence of illness incurred by the gas attack of the Chateau Thierry drive in June, 1918. Jack, who was a member of the Seventh Machine Gun Batallion, will be remembered by army men as one of the founders of AMAROC Post of the American Legion at Coblenz in 1920. The word AMAROC was made up of the two initial letters of AMerican ARmy of OCcupation. We just met King Charney talking things over with one of his satisfied Agfa customers.