The international photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

August, 1929 Th, INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER Nineteen i * W/rwr www^{ ■f""»f # i I. i .a K — 1^4 I K T~ CZ> W" r^j The new set which Smith & Aller have erected in the new DuPont Building: for use of cameramen desiring to make test shots has been dressed and, at time of going to press, the lights were being placed by MoleRichardson. This is one of the cutest tricks that ever happened in TEK-NIK TOWNE, and it should prove tremendously popular with cameramen. All you have to do is to go there and use it, boys. The Technicolor camera department has been moved from the Cole avenue plant to the location on Seward Street, formerly the Tremont Laboratories. Practically the entire lower floor has been given over to the camera department. Besides ample storage and vault room the main camera shop is equipped with individual work benches and locker room for each cameraman. Mole-Richardson furnished all the equipment for the filming of "The Medicine Man," eight hundred feet down in the famous Carlsbad Caverns. Nothing like "Inkies" for subterranean shots. William Horsley, of the Horsley Laboratories, is making a great success of his filmcote process. His machines are always busy. News comes from Rochester that our old friend George Blair, for many years general sales agent of the Eastman Kodak Company, has been promoted to the position of manager of the cine film export department. Mr. E. P. Curtis, his successor, will fly from Rochester, arriving in Hollywood, July 25, to look over the field. Congratulations to both gentlemen. Emory Huse, of Eastman, has returned from a two weeks' vacation in the Pacific Northwest. These Easterners have to begin exploring before they learn the name of the street they are living on. Max Factor reports largely increased sales of Factor products in foreign countries as well as throughout the United States. M. S. Whitehill has been appointed to the post of manager for the Max B. Dupont Vitacolor Corporation. Mr. Whitehill was but recently with Cecil B. DeMille and begins his new duties with a background of achievement. The Mitchell Camera Corporation is comfortably settled in its new home out near the Beverly Hills. The new plant, which will be featured in an early issue of THE INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER, is said to be one of the most efficient in the world. Davis Factor of the Max Factor Co., has returned from his vacation and proved, by actual experience, that Factor's anti-sunburn, freckle and tan lotions delivered the goods 100 per cent. The Technicolor camera department which is under the direction of E. T. Estabrook, is without doubt the most complete and carefully designed shop of its kind in the profession. The camera mantenance shop is fully provided with precision machines capable of rendering immediate repair service to the battery of cameras Technicolor now operates in the various studios. The machine shop is under the personal management of Henry Prautsch, chief machinist of the Technicolor Company. Adjoining the camera shop a complete test developing dark room has been equipped to handle all camera tests necessary during the day's work. E. O. (Eddie) Blackburn, Pacific Coast representative of J. E. Brulatour, Inc., distributers of Eastman raw stock, has something up his sleeve. Here are the facts — draw your own conclusion: Mr. Blackburn, just as The International Photographer goes to press, purchased for J. E. Brulatour, Inc., lot No. 6708-10, a frontagp of fifty feet on Santa Monica Boulevard by 150 feet deep. This parcel of ground adjoins on the west the new Eastman Kodak building. He also purchased for the same account 100 feet by 137 feet deep fronting on Las Palmas Street, which location is immediately across Las Palmas from the main office entrance to Metropolitan studios. And all E. O. did, when asked what J. E. Brulatour, Inc., purposes to do w'th all this real estate, was to look mysterious and reply: ''For further expansion." Now what do you suppose this means? hen it was not unusual for twenty-five or thirty units to be shooting at once. On the day this shot was taken there were big doings at Universal and a :en sandwiches and Dal Clawson and his pirates stole all the bottled goods. It was the cameramen who dined..