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brief requests that the general public may make by telephone, it is believed that the League will aid the great majority of movie makers and still filmers adequately. It promises to do all in its power to see that you are given all the help it can provide.
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in point of fact, that, when you happen to be photographing the more subdued background of the floodlighted buildings with the new hypersensitive black and white film, you had best exclude the leaves, for they will be overly bright by comparison, almost blanched. Moreover, night is not the best time to photograph the flowers, since few of the beds (except those in the area of Gardens on Parade) are floodlighted. Some bizarre closeups can be secured of the blossoms, by the light reflected from the buildings, which throws them into silhouette, and these might serve as a cinematic diversion from the daytime sequences — but not much more.
An interesting series of still picture studies could (and should) be made, it seems to me, of the various species of trees at the fair. There are the elms and the pin oaks along the Mall; there are also the cypress trees at the Turkish pavilion, a funereal and impressive cluster, reminiscent (to those who know Istanbul) of the heights above Ayoub. (The cypresses, I should add, are like the pines in their absorption of actinic light, and the best time to photograph them is shortly before or after noon.) Across, at the pavilion of Sweden, are white birches, quite frail and silver, like underfed aristocrats (use a heavy yellow filter against a blue sky) ; at the Japanese building are innumerable dwarfed trees, arboreal concentrates, fitted to the energetic smallness of the Japanese islands; down on the shore of Fountain Lake, past the willows that droop here and there in a delicate benediction, are the palms and orange trees of Florida.
The Japanese garden, like most of its type, is not especially floral, nor is the tropical garden of Brazil across the way. But Brazil has its Victoria regias — water lilies seldom seen here in the North. Whether or not you share an enthusiasm for water lilies, you ought to photograph these Victoria regias. They are immense — literally speaking. We can film them from the glass walled second story of the pavilion, letting the figures in the garden — on the mosaic sidewalks — convey the proportion. Then we might go down for a medium shot and, finally, secure a closeup of somebody's hand rippling the water near the edge of an enormous lily pad.
Still in the tropics, we should stop at the pavilion of Venezuela to photograph the native orchids, which are flown up
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