Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1941)

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Slim didn't duck; he was so scared he sank to the ground and the plane skimmed on over him. Six years later, the same thing occurred in Canada on one of the Quint pictures, only this time Paul managed to tiptilt the wing over Slim's head. Slim isn't exactly sore at Paul, but he just "ain't gonna tempt fate agin." When Paul isn't on a picture he still is not idle. He is the very active head of a charter plane service out at the Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. He and his boys contract to fly anything or anybody any place in any weather. THE next time you sit in a theater watching an air picture and you find yourself ducking because the plane seems to be coming right at you, just pretend you're up there in the air with cameraman Elmer Dyer and that you can't duck! If you do there won't be any picture because the greatest air stunts in the world wouldn't add much to the picture if the camera failed to catch them. They can't all be taken from the ground — and that's where Elmer Dyer comes in. Elmer started out to be just another cameraman, but it was pretty dull work until one day, way back in the days of early war pictures, when Dick Grace invited him to go up and shoot some air stuff. They were trying to photograph the walls of a solid rock canyon. Dick realized that the plane wouldn't make it and yelled to Dyer, in the back cockpit, to sit down because they were going to crash. They crashed. When Dick came to, he looked around for Dyer. Cold sweat poured from his face when he saw that back seat folded up like an accordion. Then something told him to look in the opposite direction. There on a broken wing sat a very foolish but very calm-looking Dyer, staring stupidly at the camera crank in his hand. "Gosh," he apologized, "I guess I lost the camera." After that Dyer was a hero — the bravest cameraman in town. He still is. If a stunt has to be photographed, Dyer is the man to do it. He and Paul Mantz have chased clouds from Hollywood to Denver to get a particular efiect. Once they flew right into a cloud that was black as ink. Worse than that, it was a complete vacuum inside. Down, down, down the plane dropped until it hit the bottom of the cloud, which was air. They flew out upside down but otherwise unscathed. "But there's just nothing like having some good solid ozone under your wings," Elmer insists. "A little in your lungs doesn't hurt either!" Paul adds. The next time you sit in a theater and gasp because the lady on the screen is so beautiful that she quite takes your breath away, just give a word of praise to the man who made her that way. Leon Shamroy says boldly, "All women are beautiful!" Then, with a twinkle in his brown eyes, adds, "That's what I had to learn in order to become a first-clas^ cameraman. No matter what a fact looked like I had to make it look beautiful. At first I thought the studio wa handing me all the difficult faces in the world and then I learned a neat littli trick — you don't light the lady; you light the wall behind her." Indirect lighting is the secret, according to Leon, who insists that few women are so beautiful that they can stand direct Ught. If you would be beautiful in your own home, get rid of all those overhead and wall-bracket lights and resort to lamps. Place the lamps where you are apt to sit, that is beside or behind chairs and sofas. Light your walls rather than yourself. See if you cannot so arrange your lamps that thej' will cast some interesting shadow upon the wall just back of the spot your head will occupy. "If a screen star has a bad left cheek. I don't concentrate on the cheek," says Leon, "I just toss a baby spot to the wall back of the cheek and the audience is so busy looking at the wall that they never even see the cheek." All you have to remember is to have the light behind your head, shining upon your hair and not upon your face. Many a not-too-pretty woman has beer stamped as "beautiful" because she was smart enough to halo-light her hair, thus forming a flattering frame for her face "Of course, make-up has a lot to do with beauty," Shamroy admits, "but Colonial ladies caught their beaux by moonlight and held them by candlelight Just take a tip from great-great-great grandma and never, never go near a harsh, bright light." This is tfie end of the table you didn't see on page 70; Robert Taylor, Jimmy Stewart and a nice little smirker, Frances Robinson, help Bob celebrate his birthday at Giro's 82 PHOTOPLAv combined with movie mtrhm