International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Fourteen The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER October, 1929 International Photographers jjxsal 659 Hollywood California HusseII Owed arranging wi;EJ!^ircha] Editor New York TIKES for rEprint oaraEra story you rsguEstEc ImpossihlE for us to givE you additional data hut owEn writing subsequent storiES that will de suitahlE our magazinE. BEst REgards to gang from LittlE faErica. Van Joe. l/8a s«-eiREi£r+ \T/ITH Commander Byrd, on the South » » Pole expedition, are two members of Local 659, the official cinematographers of the party, Joe Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer, both topnotchers in their line, of course, or they wouldn't be where they are. Russell Owen is the official chronicler of the expedition and he is the clever chap who writes the stories that are radioed every few days from Byrd's Camp, Little America (Antarctica), to the Neiu York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispute// and syndicated through them to hundreds of the metropolitan newspapers of the United States, Canada and foreign lands. Recently Mr. Owen interviewed Rucker and Van Der Veer on motion cameras, the effect of intense cold upon them and the care of such cameras under antarctic conditions. This interview, wrought into a story by Mr. Owen, was radioed to the Neiv York Times syndicate and published in the subscribing papers, but it did not reach many of the men most interested in the subject, the cameramen of the motion picture industry. It was then that the long arm of Local 659 got to work and the Neiv York Times was asked if the camera story could be reproduced in The International Photographer, the official magazine of the Local. The report was that permission must be secured from Mr. Russell Owen — and Mr. Owen was only about 16,000 miles away. Finally through Mr. F. C. Birchall, acting managing editor of the Neiv York Times, arrangements were made by Brother Arthur Reeves to send a radio message to Rucker and Van Der Veer stating the case to them and asking them to request of Mr. Owen permission to reprint the story. After a few days, sure enough, the radio barked back a reply from Rucker and Van Der Veer stating that Mr. Owen had very graciously consented and adding that other matter of interest to International Photographer readers would be coming up from time to time. The editors are sure Mr. Owen's story will be found worth all the trouble it took to bring it to our readers and they extend to Brothers Rucker and Van Der Veer, to Mr. Owen, to Mr. Birchall and to The New York Times the sincerest assurances of appreciation of the entire membership of Local 659. Above is a facsimile of the radiogram received from Joe and Willard. By RUSSELL OWEN [Copyright, 1929, by New York Times ;i"'l St. Louis Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.] LITTLE AMERICA (Antarctica), June 15. (Exclusive) — The unnaturally warm weather of the last few days was followed yesterday by so much moisture that ice and frost crystals formed on every outdoor structure in the Byrd expedition's camp. Wires became glittering and fairy-like ropes in the light of a flare and even the radio towers and skiis standing in the snow were rimmed with delicate frost flowers. Some of these things were so beautiful that they were photographed by flashlights and some wonderful pictures were made to show what pranks the frost giants can play down here when they are in an impish mood. It was too good an opportunity for the moving picture men to overlook and