The international photographer (Jan-Dec 1932)

November, 193Z The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER CHICAGO Seventeen In Focus — In Spots! WELL, old Gar Wood went out and brought the speed record back to America agin for splashing a speed boat kinder gantlylike over the drink at the tame speed of 125 miles an hour... Of course, sumpin like this jest couldn't be done unless them ole 666 news snoopers was around with them gossipy leases of theirs and their trigger aim with the supersensitive. The usual Windy Village button pushers made the trek to Algonac, Mich... There wuz Eddie Morrison and that woman tamer noise ketcher of his, Phil Gleason. . .Tony Caputo and Ralph Saunders rolled the Pathe truck over. . .Floyd Traynham got up at dawn for Universal. . .Me and my dial twister Robertson brought up the end of the parade of Chi film burners over there. George Hoover and Don Altendorfer were still twirling as Gar Wood's personal celluloid historians. . .To make a movie of the event for them birds as just mentioned wuz jest as easy as it wuz for Gar to break the record . . . Nothing to it. . .but to do it the gang had to get up at 4 A.M. every day, rain or shine, and it wuz kinder raining most mornings. . .which meant getting up jest the same, dashing down to the course, and finding out the thing again wuz postponed account of the weather. Finally Gar got tired of the weather and went out and made the run in the rain anyhow... and it still wuz a pushover for him. . .You know, Gar Wood happens to be one of them birds up in the public eye what the news gatherers love to work with . . . Gar always has got the time to chin with you and do anything you want in the way of a pix. Also he has a manager, Steve Hannigan, what rates aces with the boys . . .Steve always handles the publicity for speed . . . It's gotta be mixed up with the speed game for Steve to be on the job. . .Whether it's the Indianapolis auto Race or Florida Speed dashes Steve's always on the job with the old newsreel gang. Wal, I said the story itself wuz a pushover to cover, outside getting outa bed at 4 A.M.... but what lingers in the minds of them silly newsreelers is the set-up of the joint we were camped at... up at St. Claire, Michigan. Lived in a inn like you see portrayed in the feature fillum stories ...right on a beautiful river, the St. Claire... And ships passed right be By the Sassiety Reporter As Told to FRED A. FELBINGER fore your winder all day and nite long. At night the moon beamed down and made them ripples kinder shimmer on the water, and I noticed a couple guys what pushes buttons and is kinder immune to romantic idears sorta stand there and watch the ships pass in the night beneath that moon on the St. Claire. . .and kinder wish the story would agin be postponed on the morrow jest so's they could again be there the next night to git another eyeful of the stuff them silly song writers mush about in their songs. Well, you know, anybody kin be human in the proper settin, even newsreelers. Following the Candidates Out at Des Moines the President of the United States, Herbert Clark Hoover, made an appearance .. .and boy, what a mess of newsreelers can pop up for an occasion like that... The streets was lined with mobs of people to get a look at the Chief Executive and the First Lady of the Land, but they hadda kinder crane their necks as the President was surrounded by the sound buggies of the 636 mob from Chicago. . .besides them, I seen old Arthur De Tita, Bob Denton and Al Waldron. . . the boys who travel with the President no matter where he may roam. While at Chicago the RooseveL special makes a stop and out pops one big mess of old timers of the panhandles . . . The Roosevelt train's press car was used as sort of a reunion hall for the old knights of the groan boxes. A Author Visits Chi Harry Birch and Bob Duggan, two old retired newsreelers, dropped down to swap lies with an old crony still batting them out. . .ole Lou Hutt . . .and during the reunion in pops Eddie Morrison, Tondra and his writing noise ketcher, Chick Peden... Peden, you know, has wrote the book "Newsreel Men"! . . . sumpin well worth reading, too... I ain't got my autographed copy yet, but maybe Chick will limber up and rush it on if he lamps this. Always chiselin', but never mind, I is already forwarded Chick the twofifty for it, as I guess he has received plenty calls for free copies. . .being Automotive Men Amazed at Strafford's Revealing Film BILLY STRAFFORD, business manager of 666, startles the automotive industry with a scientific film he produced with his super-slow motion camera. Billy's camera is capable of making slow motion 62% times slower than the old normal of 16 frames to a second, running a 400-foot roll through in six and a half seconds. Billy's picture shows what happens in the intake manifold of an automobile engine. His camera records an interesting expose showing how the gasoline explodes as it passes through a manifold. The picture will prove of great value to automotive engineers. in the game that he is. . .Jimmie Pergola was also on the train and dropped in to say Howdy to the old timers. Is you heard Tondra's victrola yet playing "Song of the Islands"? . . .It's one of those one buck records he's got and he really gets tears in his eyes for old Honolulu every time the needle scrapes over the disk. Business and Science And while the news snoopers is prancing about hounding down the interesting from Life the more artistic element of the 666 tripod jugglers is found doing the following: Roger Fenimore returns from an extensive trip filming a series of scenic shots on America's interesting cities. Reed N. Haythorne again is packing trunks and equipment for an expedition into another unknown corner of the earth . . . Reed again is to accompany, into Asia, Professor Charles Breasted of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Dick Ganstrum, Dave Hargan and Charlie O'Conner blew into the Windy Village the other day fresh from completing a series of industrials for the automotive industry at Detroit. . . The boys looked as prosperous as the old boom days of '29 . . . Harry Birch hibernated to his cutting room to sort out many miles of scenes he has completed shooting on his soundie on the coming World's Fair to be held here next year. Lables and Dead Bottles Quinn Ryan, ace announcer of WGN, does the offstage for Harry's new pix. . .Bill Wienand sits up of an