Moving Picture Weekly (1916)

-THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY -11 Animated Weekly News TAKING SCIENTIFIC PICTURES 0 LPHONSE WERTHEIM does not look like a cameraman. He looks like a professor, and therefore it seems particularly appropriate that he should have taken so many scientific pictures for the Universal Animated Weekly and especially the Screen Magazine. It is rather hard to get from him data of the things he has done, for like most of his fraternity, he is inclined to be represented solely by his films. All the cameremen I have interviewed have shown the same tendency to let their accomplishments speak for them. But these are some of the recent subjects that he has photographed for Universal showing: He went with his trusty machine up Otisville, New York, where the Health Department manufactures anti-toxin for diptheria cases, and photographed the horse which has supplied serum worth nearly half a million dollars, for the cure of the dread scourge. The Universal Film Company made something of a sensation, last siammer, by their infantile paralysis pictures, with suggestions for preventive measures and first treatment, which were shown all through the streets of New York, by means of a unique cart-tail screen, invented for the occasion. It was Mr. Wertheim who secured these views, which were of great assistance to the Health Department in dealing with the plague. He has also taken many bacteriological pictures in the Willard Parker Hospital of New York, where the Health Department has its laboratories. He has photographed actual operations, on the eye, or on the throat, in the Seadside Hospital, which has a clinic for the treatment of children who need Immediate attention. Hi al (i took the views of the horse ambulances, and the fcn ment of sick and injured horses, for the S. P. C. A., whirh were shown in an early number of Screen Magazine. Mr. Wertheim doe., not tell v hairbreadth escapes, and risks of I and limb, though lie has often tound himself in a position which would he decidedly unpleasant, to say the l< of it, to the layman. For example, when he photographed the leave taking of the fi9th regiment, for the border, he had to climb to a mo I i carious perch with all the Impedimenta of his camera, high on a pile of lumber, in order to get the views that ho wanted. It was he who secured the pictures of the departing submarine merchantman, the Deutschland as she left Baltimore. He was in a small yacht, clinging to the rigging with one hand, while he turned the crank of his machine with the other, expecting every minute to be washed overboard by the huge seas which were running at the time. As he says, "If you've got to, you can do anything" — which would not make a bad motto for the cameramen's fraternity. ANIMATED WEEKLY, No. 59. Smotliering A City. — Dense clouds of smoke from burning coke at gas plant sets thousands to coughing. — New York City. U. S. Army Quits Mexico. — Animated cameramen on job when Pershing's veterans return from punitive expedition across border. — Near Columbus, New Mexico. Sub-Titles. — Troop L, 5th Cavalry advance guard. 1st New Mexico Infantry. Motor trucks carry supplies. Army mule still useful. Chinese and Japanese flee under American guard. Reviewing 1st New Mexico Infantry. Vaccinating small refugees. Five Detained Ships. — Police guard German ships from vandals. — New York City. Seeking Explosion Victims. — Dig for bodies of 29 who died in fire following gas blast. — Chicago, III. Dare U-Boat Zone. — These liners won way safely through ocean's twin menace of torpedoes and mines. — New York Harbor, N. Y. Sub-Titles. — French liner Espagne. Canadian soldiers on furlough. Helene Dutrieu, aviatrice, comes to offer services to U. S. Lapland reaches port safely. Her stern gun. Captain Hartley, American commander, replaces British captain aboard 8. S. St. Louis. Hi mill For Inauguration. — Building seats for throng which will [dent Wilson renew oath of otlice. initmi, I). C. Cmi nln iii I'urifir Const. Torpedo boat destroyers and submarines pa troling the Western seaboard. I ( 'nl. Wall St,-,,! Show* I 'ut riot ism.— "liilT hllsiness" support of idenl in crisis by flying Old Glory, v. w York City. Sjitctacitinr Zero i Ice hamp ers smol BJld makes ruins pic tun 1800,000 tire. Si I outs. Cartoon* by Hy. \iayer, World /■'" nioux Cnririitn