The international photographer (Jan-Dec 1932)

Twenty-two The INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER November, 19-12 No Filter Aero 2 G-15 The Dope Sheet By RAY FERNSTROM THESE newsreel boys here in the West have certainly been kept busy of late. Even your Swedish emissary went away to cover the Tehachapi flood damage, this time for Pathe News. Good ole pal Jimmy Duffy did the honors at the amplifier. Maybe you fellows don't know it, but Yimmy is one of the original soundmen of the craft. No wonder his work is so topnotch. He surely can mix 'em, whether it's sound recording or radio or what will the boys in the back room have. That flood had raised havoc an:! everything down a deep gully. And who should we find down the gap but little Mac Henry from San Francisco. Swell guy, Mac, and what a trip he must have had from up north driving through the tough washouts en route! Just like him, though — never a kick — too bad that cannot be said of all us guys. Some of us are always bellyaching about something. While Mac, Yimmy and I were grinding away on wreckage the rest of the gang, Sammy Greenwald, Irby Koverman, Marshall MacCarroll, and Bob Sawyer, all from Paramount News, Al Brick and Oscar Darling of Fox Movietonews, Frank Blackwell of Pathe News and Freeman of Universal, went north to cover a navy picture off San Francisco. They hung up some kind of new record, sure enough. With all the sound outfits they were in on sixteen different boats, and still didn't get a picture because of that ole devil fcg. From a tug they were transferred to the Texas, and when the Texas fouled her anchor a destroyer was sent back to pick up the stranded eagle eyes. At sea they were shifted from the destroyer to the Tennessee. In the harbor at San Pedro there was another boat trip ashore. As you all know, the arrangements had been made the previous day aboard another ship, the Omaha, which covered three boats. Then after arriving at San Pedro there was the following day another trip from shore to the Omaha again for Admiral Leigh's speech. Lot of Boat That's a lot of boat for just fog and a speech. While on the subject of boats, John Bockhurst and Jack Dunn, both from New York, are off for Penang to shoot some animals for Fox Movietone. Probably the title will be "Bring 'em back stiff" or as ye editor suggests "Bring Back the Hides." Good luck, "Brocky"! I wonder why Brocky has given up flying. He's the guy who covered the round the world flight of the United States Army away back when. And that's not all, either. He went from high up in the air to far below the sea; and almost stayed there once. They were covering a test in a submarine of the Mommsen lung. A bunch of men were leaving the sunken sub by this means. John had the "pig" filled with water, but when the salt water hit his movietone batteries even John and his sound man had to leave the same way. 'Twas a close shave. Another feller far at sea is Chubby Lehman. Don't know how he got the moniker "Chubby" because he's skinny. Well, he's off shore shooting tuna. Went out for a two week's trip to shoot for Pathe, but has not been heard from since. It's some six weeks. Hope he's back by the time this hits print. Cheer up, Chubby, look at the dough you made. Started Something All Right Here's a funny one. One of the boys bought a gag that fits on the hood and a spark plug of a car. He put it on Blackwell and Duffy's Pathe News Studebaker. Came the two, unsuspecting. Jummy stepped on the starter of the grand car he's always praising when a terrific explosion occurred under the hood of old trusty. Smoke, black, thick and pungent, poured forth from both sides. Blackwell leaped out and went to raise the hood. There was another big bang and more clouds of smoke belched all over him. They haven't got over it yet. Watch out, you may be next. It's some sort of firecracker that goes off when either the hood is raised or the engine is switched on. Joe Johnson and Leonard Poole, being good friends and ole newsreelers of Paramount and Fox respectively, sometimes get together for a little tete-a-tete or so. Joe called Len to come on over. Len did. Meanwhile Joe had a rush telephone call and forgot Len. Len came. House lit up like a church. No one home. Len searched all around — inside the back door stood a familiar 5N 5 23 A