International photographer (Jan-Dec 1934)

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September, 1934 I 1 1 I N T E K N A T 1 O K A I. PHOTOG K A P H E R / he babe, uses a little of Disney's child psychology and a little of the kids' love of make-believe, but without artificiality. Kids love color, so all my ideas are intended for color photography. They enjoy funny sheets, especially Sunday color sections. A large measure of success of Disney's Symphonies undoubtedly came from his good judgment in using color, in addition to the novelty appeal to both eye and ear. Kids love to travel, go places and do things. As a next best thing they make believe ; if they can't go to sea they make toy boats, but different boats, better ones, with motors ; better by far than when we were kids not so long ago. They cannot fly YET, but they build mighty good models, many of them perfect, that DO fly. Can we ? And so — back to the IDEA. We take four words: TRAVEL — which means action, far places, novelty, comed\. CHILDREN — children all over the world — and take a couple of American kids with us on a tour of the globe — that can serve as a make-believe trip for the kids in our audience. COLOR — children visualize everything in color, so how can we do other than take their tip and that of Walt Disney? SOUND — little French children speaking in French in answer to our little Americans speaking English, for example. Put them all together and you start a series of Travelogues that should please any child, adult of any age and any language, anywhere. No one knows how the other folks live, on the other side of the world. We have seen plenty of travel pictures, streets, people, the same old stereotype stuff, but have we seen how they LIVE, PLAY, go to SCHOOL, EAT, SLEEP, AMUSE themselves? By carrying our two little American characters we contrast and compare ourselves with children of other lands and open opportunities for unusual action, that is ever natural. All we have to worry about is the story continuity. If you agree that Color Travelogues for children are a drawing card, why can't we go into this further? Why not a children's NEWSREEL— A JUNIOR NEWSREEL? This idea came to me several years ago as I watched a group of young Scandinavians play football in a Stockholm schoolyard. If only our young Americans could see those boys kicking the ball around, never touching it with their hands! Football is played in schoolyards the world over, but never quite the same. The contrast lends novelty to the interest in boys of other countries. The more I traveled and observed, carrying the idea in mind, the more I became convinced that here was another NATURAL. There are enough interesting events taking place in the world — things of especial interest to youngsters, and those who stay young, to keep a series of this sort rolling for years — material that the senior newsreels never cover because of the lack of spot news flavor to such happenings. The novelty, the action, the human interest, the ENTERTAINMENT is there in heavy portions. If there was not such an impregnable wall against a major theatre chain release by an independent I should make these myself, but since the wall cannot be climbed by one of my short stature, I can only toss this note to those who live within the hope that it may help to bring such pictures to the youngsters whom I know will love them. As for full length features, look to such as "Little Women," although they are hard to rind. A few such as the stories by Selma Lagerlof and, by the way, did you hear "Robin Hood" on the air the other night? Imagine that in Technicolor ! In closing may I point out a startling example that carries its own moral? Sometime ago my friend, John W. Boyle, made a feature length travelogue in Europe, entirely in color. It contained novelty from start to finish, in addition to the novelty of color. No major distributor could see the entertainment value of such a film, because it was DIFFERENT. Now that John has road shown it, this one picture has received finer press and church notices than any film ever produced. Here is such a feature as might well follow a program of Silly Symphonies and give audiences, children and grownups alike a really different entertainment experience, but we run smack up against "block booking" — and there my story ends. EASTMAN SCORES WITH THE NEWEST FOREIGN TYPE MINIATURE KODAK The newest foreign-type miniature Kodak, which takes sixteen pictures, \% by 2T4 inches in size, on an eightexposure roll of 620 film, has just been put on the market by the Eastman Kodak Company. The sixteen prints from a roll of film exposed in the Kodak Duo Six-20, as the new camera is called, are large enough for an album, a letter or a pocket. The availability of Panatomic Film, with its fine-grain characteristics, in the 620 size for use in the Duo Six-20 will accommodate also photographers who wish to make sizeable enlargements from their negatives. The Kodak Duo Six-20 is extraordinarily compact for a camera taking pictures of the size described, its longest dimension being actually less than that of a Vest ranging from 1 second to 1/300 of a second, with bulb Pocket Kodak. Like the Kodak Vollenda and the Ko and time. daks Six-20 and Six-16, the front of the Duo Six-20 The red windows have a slide cover for light prosprings into rigid picture-taking position at the touch tection when panchromatic film is used. There is a or a button. collapsible direct-view optical finder, beside a depth-of The Duo Six-20 is equipped with a Kodak Anastig f°cus scale, mat f :3.5 lens and a Compur shutter, which are set in In appearance, the Duo Six-20 has the popular beveled a spiral focusing mount controlled by a lever. The lens ends and etched metal side panels of the present modis of 7 cm. focal length. The shutter has eight speeds, ernistic trend. Price, $52.50. Please mention The International Photographer when corresponding with advertisers.