International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

April, 1929 The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER Fifteen Commercial Movietone Fox-Case is developing a commercial department for the purpose of using sound film in hotels and salesrooms to advance sales talks, etc. At the present time their field is chiefly the automobile industry. Because of the commercial or non-theatrical aspect, the Fox-Case Company intended to, and were, operating this department with non-union operators. The general office of the I. A. T. S. E. has replaced all such non-union operators with members of our Alliance,' under road contracts at the prevailing sound-operating scale of $125.00 weekly, with the understanding that but one operator is necessary to operate the one machine carried. This understanding is in accord with our International Laws : Article 1, Section 22, Clauses D and E, page 34. as the equipment carried consists only of one portable projector with Movietone attachment and sound recording on the film. Douglas Fairbanks' latest picture, "The Iron Mask," photographed by Henry Sharp, is breaking all records at the Rivoli theatre in New York. Associated with Brother Sharp on the photographic staff were Warren Lynch, Royal Babbitt and Charles Straumer. Charles Lynch made the stills. There and Back John Mescal tells this one on Vernon Larson : They were about to start on location to Lake Tahoe recently, when John discovered that Vernon was among the missing just as the train was about to pull out of the station. Hurrying back to the waiting room, Brother Mescal was just in time to hear the following loud-speaker conversation at the ticket window: Vernon (breathlessly) : "My company's gone on location and left me behind. Quick ! Gimme a round trip ticket on the next section." Station Agent: "Where to?" Vernon: "Back here, of course, where-ja-think?" o Sleep On, Pequot To the Editor of the International Photographer, Special Delivery: Your article in the February issue, "SLEEP ON PEQUOT," caused a great deal of discussion in our home. My husband, a good Union Cameraman, came home and said that from now on we would have to sleep on Pequot. As we live on Hoover street, I made arrangement to move over to Pico street, when he explained that Pequot was the name of the only 100 per cent Union Made sheets and pillow cases. That is not the half of it. We are sleeping on blankets now, and I wish that you would do something to get this matter ironed out as summer is coming on. Yours truly, MRS. X. BACK. Labeling Department — Max Factor's Make-up Studios The machinery shown in this picture, is the latest automatic type of labeling equipment, almost human in its accomplishment. The machines gum, place and wipe labels at the rate of thirty or more per minute. Labeling millions of packages every year is but one detail of this marvelously equipped laboratory. Jackson Rose, using the first allmetal Bell and Howell camera in 1912, for the Essanay Company of Chicago. Note the lenses and finder, also the 200-foot magazine. This camera had an 11-foot dissolve. It had no matt box or iris attachments. Les Rowley is making still pictures for Dorothy Mackaill. Wm. Beaudine directing. "... a color so pure and so beautifully blended that every sensation of life comes as if by magic to the screen . . ." — From International Photographer for February. W % Max B. DU PONT VITACOLOR CORPORATION 207-9 N. Occidental Blvd. Los Angeles, California