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November, 1929
l he INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
Forty-one
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■BY
FREDERIC COLBURN CLARKE
THE WRONG TURNING
For a few hours last week there <was i mystery on the Universal lot. Brother Howard Oswald was shooting close-up scenes of a monkey, whose unruly behavior had resulted in much waste of film, so, as Brother Shock, his assistant, tut a fresh thousand foot magazine in 'he camera the director called lunch.
"Let's leave the animal alone — perhaps he'll behave better after eating," he said.
An hour later, Brother Oswald prepared to resume work, and called for Him. Brother Schock claimed he already had changed magazines just before lunch, but as the one on the camera evidently contained exposed film, a heated argument ensued — but the cameraman is always right, so another exchange was made.
Scene — The projection room.
Time — The following morning.
Schedule up to twelve o'clock — then on came a thousand foot roll, which, after several hundred feet of scenery showing the same set — two Italian laborers came on the screen, grinned, then dropping picks and shovel, proceeded to burlesque a love scene, even to a final clinch and kiss.
"What the hell," exploded the director, "did you waste film on that, Oswald?"
"Not me," affirmed Brother Oswald. Brother Schock also pleaded innocence.
A hurry call brought the two Italians, who were watering the lawn in front of an adjoining set.
"Were you acting in front of a camera yesterday," asked the angry director.
"Si, Mecster," replied the bolder of the two.
"Who turned the camera?"
"Camera — who make-a da pic?" said the Italian, nudging his companion, who grinned.
"Yes, damn it; who turned the crank of the camera!" yelled the director, infuriated by the grin.
"Ha — Mecster — da monk.' He make-a da pic!"
Brother Howard now puts a padlock on his Bell & Howell when he goes to lunch.
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