International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Twenty -eight INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER August, 1929 The Daily Grind B. STAUl his first close-ups the lab. wired back that the cameraman was cutting off the legs of his actors. Passed JACKSON ROSE standing on the corner of Seventh and Broadway with a loaf of bread under his arm — must have beer g for the jam to go by. JOHN SEITZ says the new slogan in Chicago is — here today and gun to-morrow. * * Judge (about to announce tence » : "Where have I seen your face bet : . ' used to give your children saxophone less Jud*. :»w sentence the pris oner to life imprisonment." * * JOHN MESCAL says -me men are born crazy, others become cameramen and some even take up saxophone. * * HERMAN SCHOPP lives in a hotel where three rings mean ice wa~ two rings means a call for the bell hop and a ring around the bathtub means Saturday night. * * BOB KURRLE told me that Scotch friend of his invited him to a S10 a plate dinner, but Bob was on the 1 7th day of his 18-day diet. * * BILL HYER now lives at the more, where they have cracked pillars from Rome and broken arches from Boyle Heights. * * tit Gerstad says the sound booth is a great thing for the cameraman who used to Yes his director. * * When BEN REYNOLDS was born, five storks died of exhaustion. FOOLISH FABLE: Once upon a time there was a cameraman who No-ed his director. He's driving a laundry wagon now. SOL POLIT' z son — "What is a sax-inch Ic • Son — "Something that brings you So a day IRA HOKE says life's a funny protion and quotes: e, 1928 — Producer to cameraman after camerman had been working day and night for many we ry and grab a sandwich working again tonight; now step on June, 192 — Same producer and cameraman. Producer to cameraman who has been working less than eight hours for some time: "We have a few shots to do tonight, but if you don't feel like it we can postpone them until tomorrow. Come up to my house and we'll have dinner.'' LEN SMITH says marriage is like a mousetrap, easy to get into, but hard to get out of and the husband is the piece of cheese. Played Peeping Tom and looked into Dan Clark's window and saw his wife trying her newly made dress on Dan. Looks like he's a model hus I and. * * RAY RAMSEY is musically ininclined. He was born with a violin in his hands and a bow in his legs. * * DICK FRYER says that grounds for divorce is generally at lot of dirt. * * MAX ELLIOTT wants to know what's become of the cameraman who used to wear puttees and h his cap turned around. I told Max he replaced by the Hollywood Tarn. * * JIM VAN TREES says that most people owe then res so much that never pay anyone else. * * OTTO HIMM says believe it or not, but John Wright, the tailor who has two prices for one suit of clothes, has a salesman by the name of 5e g Part I. A. T. S. E. Famous last words: "Are your dues all paid up?" W\t\) tf)t ponttrs Meet Howard Oswald. The time is This still was sfa I at the old i :>s in Glendale. The picture was The Boer War," a fivereel feature employing 2500 people in the battle scene. It required twelve days shooting to get it in the box with only one day of sunsh The camera was the first of the old wooaen box Bell & Howells with foot magazine. Goerz Hypar F ens and K & E Trip: Is In those days there were no retakes. Howard says that in seven years he didn't shoot a single re-t^. Also he was his own assista? li gir!. continu -till man. negatives were shipped to New York for development and prints and Howard tells us that when he sent in TO MEXICO '7ronjager has gone to the y ot" Mexico to shoot a special feature for a Mexican organization. Jules expects to be away several months — in case he likes the job. His equipment included 50.000 feet of Eastman film, 20 dozen stills and a Bell & Howell camera. FOR SALE BELL & HOWELL CAMERA NO 486 Complete Equipment 6 Lenses JAMES R. PALMER Care of . Magazine Walter J. Van Rossem Photographic Laboratory and Camera Rental Service HOlly 0725 6049 Hollywood Blvd. Hollywood. California FOR RE\T LATE MODEL BELL & HOWELL With Fearless Speed Movement Asto Lenses F. 2. 3. and Full Equipment Ask Jimmy Palmer or Phone GR. 5927 or OX. 6798 ELMER G. DYER Now Shooting the Akeley Camera ith Sound for Hoot Gibson Frederic Colburn Clark? Photographs Burbank 40! FOR SALE 4 Mltchel Magazines and Case S110.00 1 F 1.8 Astro Lens in Mount S95.00 1 Graflex. 4x5 Apply this Office or to JOHN SILVER — HO. 8607