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Sh o o t s the Wo r k s
of let-me-take-your-picture stuff that any kid would take on a trip."
After her marriage to Lew Ayres, Ginger shared her husband's interest in home movie cameras and made several reels of movie action stuff. But it was during the making of "Top Hat" that she really caught the fever. Her secretary, Bill Hetzler, had been taking pictures, as amateur and professional, for ten years. He has a German camera and his pictures are good.
I "That canal set for 'Top Hat' was so lovely, I wanted to make a few shots of it," said Ginger, "so I asked Bill to bring his camera over and let me see what I could do. Of course, nobody really wants you to take pictures on sets, but they were nice about it. I stood on one stage and shot through the door to the set. Sets are so beautifully lighted that amateurs can get good stuff without figuring out how to do it. I was so pleased with my results that I began to think I should buy a camera of my
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"Everyone seemed to have a Leica camera, and they all recommended it to me, so I got one. Almost as soon as I had it, I took my trip to New York and Washington, taking it along. I'd been given careful directions about it, but I suppose I forgot them, or else I hadn't learned how to apply them, for I came back with next to nothing. Sometimes, I'd over-exposed ; sometimes the lighting was wrong ; sometimes the focus wasn't right. But each failure taught me something.
"Bill shot some pictures, and the first ones he made weren't good either. He analyzed the results and showed me what was wrong. One of my chief faults had been that I was so excited over what I hoped to get that I didn't hold the camera still. And here's a tip for other enthusiasts: If you want to get an action shot, don't shoot it as it whizzes past you, but shoot as it comes toward you at some angle so that as it moves, it will move in your range and not in and out."
While she was making "In Person" with George Brent, he, in his role of ornithologist, had a small Leica camera, and this further fired Ginger's photographic ambitions. When they went up to Big Bear on location, she took her Leica with her and got some off-stage stuff that even Bill admitted wasn't bad.
Ginger is more interested in people than in buildings or scenery, which accounts for the fact that her albums contain very few shots without human interest.
"If I ever do take a building, (Continued on page 88)
By
Ruth Tildesiey