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IF YOU should ask Pat O'Brien what he knows about I taking candid camera pictures, he'd reply: "Not a | thing in the world!" But just try going out to Pat's house with your own camera, taking shots of the garden, the babies, visiting celebrities, and so on. Pat will be right there at your elbow, borrowing the camera, shooting the pictures for you, and showing intense interest all the time.
Not so long ago, when Pat gave his usual party to celebrate the conclusion of a picture, a band of local news-cameramen arrived looking for "art." Pat, in his customary fashion, borrowed the camera belonging to the newshound, and shot another angle on each group.
"My theory is that pictures like that should hand someone a laugh," he explained. "I get a kick out of these. See Jim Cagney interrupted just as he was telling Joan Blondell a story? Does she look like: 'Will we never get to the point ?' And Bing Crosby, Joe E. Brown and Bert Wheeler, holding a pose on 'Sweet Adeline' !
"I didn't have anything to do with lighting or focus on those shots — the other fellows did that. I suppose my chief trouble with my pictures is the same you have— or anybody who gets camera fever at all — we're in too much of a hurry. We see something and we've got to grab it. Sometimes we have luck and the picture stays there until we've shot it, but usually we're afraid it won't, so we don't stop for correct focus and lighting.
"Here's an example of my
Says Pat O'Brien, Kodak Kibitzer. He has lots of cameras of his own, but will borrow yours — to prove the best shots should hand you a laugh
By Ruth Tildesley
There's life, and a smile, in all the pictures in the O'Brien family album. Left, Pat's favorite subjects, daughter Mavourneen and son Sean — the lad seen in two other shots in center and right above. Mrs. O'Brien tells a fish story, above. Left above, harmony by Bing Crosby, Joe E. Brown and Bert Wheeler.
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