Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1945)

164 MAY 1945 CloseUDS — What filmers are doing FOR BETTER MOVIES to send overseas —or to enjoy at home . . . get PHOTOFLOODS It's mighty handy to have! G-E Photoflood lamp R-2 carries its own reflector... fits many a movie making need. G-E also makes many other lamps Jor every photo need . . . including projection and photoflash. Hearths G-E radio programs: "The G-E All-Girl Orchestra" , Sunday 10:00 p. m. EWT, NBC: "The World Today" news, Monday through Friday 6:45 p. m. EWT, CBS: "The G-E Houseparty," Monday through Friday 4:00 p. m. EWT, CBS. G-E MAZDA PHOTO LAMPS GENERAL @ ELECTRIC BUY WAR BONDS AND HOLD THEM Being a confirmed New Yorker, we had no idea that Iowa was such handsome looking country until we saw it recently in the films of Mary Jessop, ACL, herself a Manhattanite. She had two pictures — in 16mm. Kodachrome — and a slightly confusing story about how she started making one of them, then found herself involved in a second one (which grew out of the first one), and how the second one got finished before the first one, and so on — if you follow us. In any case, the two films (both finished) are Iowa Is Nice Too, which is bursting with beautiful Iowa girls, and Little Soldier, which is bursting with a beautiful Iowa farm. . . . We are putting a visit to the Cornbelt near the top of our list of postwar plans. Before we get too far into summer, we have a couple of items on skiiing which may interest you. The first was the midwinter screening given by Robert P. Kehoe, FACL, before 400 members and guests of the New York Ski Council, gathered in that city's Henry Hudson Hotel. Mr. Kehoe, who is a charter member of the organization, presented (with music) his Wilderness Ski Races, Snow On The Mountains (a 1944 Ten Best winner) and September Peace. On the same program — and more or less competing with him — was Otto Lang, former ski instructor at Sun Valley, who screened a couple of commercially made sound films about skiing. Our agent at the gathering reports candidly that the Kehoe amateur footage was the better. R. V. Elms, ACL, we now wish to state, is a man after our own heart when it comes to this sport of sliding down hill on a couple of sticks. He simply refuses to take the subject with that almost reverential devotion which fires the eye of your true skiing addict. To him. skiing may be fun, but it is also plenty funny — and he proves the point with eminent good humor in Dope On Skiing. Running just 150 feet of 8mm. Kodachrome, this breezy little farce sets forth the woes of a determined "dub" who tries to learn the sport from an illustrated instruction manual. The book, a sizeable one, ends finally in the seat of his pants — as a cushion. The dub, sinking painfully at last into a chair, decides that, come spring, he had better take up golf. ar be it from us to try to start anything, but in The Autobiography o) Jane Sneden — very capably produced by Roger T. Sneden. ACL. of Indianapolis— the first scene of his charming youngster was taken when she was only twenty five minutes old! Any one else want to enter a contender in this diaper derby? We like to think of the exacting and critical audience which gathered recently in New York's Engineering Societies Building to hear a discussion and demonstration of Synchronizing Sound and Motion Pictures. For the audience was composed of members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, while the lecturers were Joseph J. Harley, ACL. and John R. Hefele, ACL — both top notch movie makers and sound technicians. In the words of the society's prospectus, "Mr. Harley will describe and demonstrate various methods of synchronizing recorded music with motion pictures . . . while Mr. Hefele will discuss in some detail the technical aspects of the double turntable phonograph used." The meeting — which must have assembled an awesome amount of I.Q. for such a simple subject — was arranged by Walter L. Belts, of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who serves as chairman of the ASME Photographic Division. Capping the Climax: You wouldn't read about this in an AP dispatch, but we have a report from one of our Philippine scouts — Kodakery's to be exact — on a little amateur movie incident that took place when American forces stormed ashore at Lingayen Gulf. Things were going right well, all the assault waves were firmly established and there on the beach was young Ensign Paul Crookshank, from a Navy LCC. Mr. Crookshank, who is a rabid amateur cameraman, had been shooting film like crazy, but was now ready to go back aboard ship. It was exactly then that a GI sang out, "Here comes MacArthur!" Almost trembling with excitement Mr. Crookshank pulled his camera out of its case and turned it on the general as the great man once more set foot on the soil of Luzon. . . . Only trouble was. he forgot to remove the lens cap!