International photographer (Feb-Dec 1929)

Forty T h e INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER October, 1929 Qhicago — ^ix-Sixty-Six — Qhicago Motion Picture Industries Local 666, WATCH YOUR POCKETBOOK '■ A" T^ s^arTd Canada^ ^ YES ! YES ! THIS IS HE Our inquiring reporter went along with We learned about hospitality from the boys to the Bell & Howell factory and «>' fc.UGfc.Nt CUUK F|oyd Traynham our Georgia wizard, lunch and found much to comment upon. President Speaking of that irrepressible story of Inasmuch as he quotes "We," and we like Charles N. David Chicago the host who drank from the finger bowl to see our name in print too, we are not Vice-Presidents because one of his guests hadn't the adgoing to use the blue pencil in any in Oscar Ahbe Chicago vantage of an Emily Post course — Traynstance. He says: Charles E. Bell St. Paul ham will join in the chorus of "March The most interesting feature of the meet p. l. Maguire St. Louis inS Through Georgia" and extoll the ing was a demonstration of the new camera ^ yy Reid Kansas City virtues of Sherman. silent mechanism designed by Mr. Howell, ■ • ~ — Indiananolis All of which is merelv bv way of ex chief engineer of the Bell & Howell organ rvALl'H D1UUY uiuidiidpons J . . . J ization, which has been quite thoroughly j -p Flanagan Cleveland pressing the wish that our visiting mem described in a paper by Mr. Howell and bers will not regard our sweating over Brother Dubray at the Spring £»™"»= Treasurer telephone during their visits as any of the Society of Motion Pictuie Engineeis. MARVIN W. SPOOR Chicago , , , , . .. &„ , The fine points of this apparatus were lack of hospitality. Example : pointed out by Brother Dubray and dis Secretary "Well! Well! Ralph Biddv of Indiancussed. The visitors were thoroughly lm EUGENE I. COUR Chicago ann1ic inst a moment Yes I Ye« I 1 cot pressed by the perfection of construction J 6 apolls, just a moment. Y es ! Yes! 1 got and the functioning of the movement, and Offices it. A choke coil for the O. P. Goodbye they were loud in the praise of Mr. Howell's 12 East Ninth Street, Chicago Biddv. Yes! Yes! the truck is in the ingenuity and inventive genius. ' , ... Brother Dubray announced that the move Bulletin— The regular meetings of ditch, can t budge ,t. Get a caterpillar, ment had reached its final stage of devel Local 666 are held the first Mondav in Kenneth our man Eddy of Sault Ste. opment and that the engineers of Bell & mnnt\, Marie. Hello Eddy — \ es ! \ es ! Two Howell were so satisfied with it that they each month. prefocussed lamps. Yes! by air mail. expect to make shipment of a complete ; £ . r ,., „ camera, equipped with the new mechanism, Sorry Eddy, Stick around awhile. Put to Hollywood in the very near future for him orl| Yes! Yes! Well, Charley Giese, actual presentation to the production field. words, "can a fellow experiment or write just a moment What's that' Holding After Dubray's explanation. Brother Cour novelS) when his whole time is taken up the truck at the iail for sneedine: We'll expressed his opinion by saying: "If the ,. ' , , , „ , *, tne 1IU<-h at tne Ja" ror speeaing. well movement is as good as it sounds, and if reading the other fellows war novels? put nxit Giese on it. Hen Logan. A it SOUNDS as good as it looks, goodbye We are not an expert on the subject few pointers on sound sav man, if I worries!" . u . , , so we Pass his question on. knew ten times as much about sound, I Several other matters ot technical and ' , commercial interest were discussed, and SIX-SIXTY-SIX wouldn t know anything. Yes. Yes-s-s ! Brother Reeves could not refrain from not fade out. ing and remarking that The International WHERE ARE WE AT? SIX-SIXTY-SIX Photographer was fo'emost in sight on Brother Dubray's desk, in spite of the I hree C amerateers of 659 breezed into WE TOOK A DAY OFF ••tons" of documents, papers and corre the breeziest city in America and out spondence which covered it. bjew their \yjndv C;tv brothers by an Brothers Art Reeves, Floyd Travnham, The means by which a closer °°"ta* avalanche of conversational grape fruit, George Moore, J. F. Mitchell and Eugene could be brought about between the Bell <v . ,. ,-, ■ r Howell Company and the cinematographer orange blossoms, ripe and green olives Cour were the guests of Joseph Dubray, were discussed and plans outlined which and weather. Then thev turned on 365 — Bell-Howell technician, at luncheon, should prove very beneficial to both. coum ,ern_36S days of sunshine. Did (Five other expense accounts will testify The International Photographer was made ■ , , -. , • , the subject of prolonged and interesting they dazzle us ? . t0 thls-) discussion and Brother Dubray especially We hang our heads in shame. We are SIX-SIXTY-SIX was loud in praising the splendid work of compelled to admit one rainy day the THFY SHIVFR AND SHAKF Ibe Editorial staff in general and of his , , , ,' . " , inci JnlVLK. f\L\v 3n/\tS.r. old •■nai ■• ^i in nsu-ticniar past year and to make the contession good n , », A , • L ■&■ ,-,.. old pal, bi, in paiticuiar. r j • 6 jjaj \JcAIpin, of Kansas Cltv, is now a pood time was had bv all we believe we remember one day ast . • t, ,, j u r t^u £ r\ a goou ume was naa ny an. , , , , , doing Hollywood. H. E. Thoensen of Des sly c,Vtv civ rebruarv that the thermometer dropped ., • , " ■ , , .u r> . six-sixty -six • , , i Moines, la., who has been on the Coast below seventy in the shade. ( ' .. . . , . ., • „ i i„i,„ /> 7imn,prmnii nf k'^noc Pltv v u i t> j. l i i_ i ioT sl)mf time, has returned to the Hawk John L. Zimmerman ot Kansas l,ity, Yah! But how about the tremors c . 11/ ■ t. j i_ who waHeH thrnno-h mnsi nf France with it u j . u j ir e.ve ^tate. We are informed that every who waaea tnrougn most ot trance witn it happened to be our good fortune .■ . ■■ ■ . , . • , the First Division, making goals on to meet Genial Hurd, Ardent Klaffki and ^ ^ heav.ly laden truck drives by our every kick-off of the Big Bertha, is Chisler Reeves, in New York City, as Mld"west boys-well no matter, wrestling with a Pathe-Sound-News Pho well as in Chicago. We understand the six-sixty-six tophone problem. Zim is sweating a bit. New Yorkers were left with only their We are reminded that members of Six Maybe it's age creeping on? hides, while we— well we're still in a Sixty-Six have been leaving our jurisdic daze. six-sixty-six t'on without proper traveling credentials. Floyd Traynham and Walter Hotz Members of our local must have proper have taken the variable area by storm WHERE DO WE SIGN? traveling credentials. Get in touch with and are now digging in. Art Reeves took up most of our last the secretary before leaving our juris regular meeting selling us the idea of diction. Bill Storez, of Fox News, has a nice The International Photographer. His o new sound man for the World Series. selling talk was superfluous. We were E-v'idencc R.„ „ , — " , , cheering it before his arrival, but we are Desp0ndent Asst. Director (Trying to Bill Scanlon, who has been recording checking upon him to find out how many Hm) » barkwoods location): "I see bv variable area, variable density and disc of our members bought summer cottages the there has been a ,ot of |c. for more than two years, has given up fronting on the Salton Sea. „:-tI^ -,„..«j b„.-„ " h. 1 . * * niCKfrs drouriQ nrrc. eing engineer, recorder, microphonist SI \"— SI \"T\* SI \' • • and cameraman of his secret experiments and has taken up book reviewing. Since WITH THE RACKETEERS Safety his entrance into the big time novelist Norman Alley, erstwhile Eyemo expert Dan the Dip: "Quick, my bov, the class he gets a copy of all war books of the International News Reel, is now cops are after me. Where can I hide?" absolutely free — for his opinion. holding up the camera end of a Metro Asst. Cameraman: "Try the account "How the Heck," not to use his own tone Sound Truck. How heavy is a ing office; it's impossible to find anybody International Photographers of the Western Electric truck ? there."