Screenland (May-Oct 1940)

Page scan 00067 from Screenland

Record Details:

Title:
Screenland
Date:
May-Oct 1940
Publisher:
[New York, Affiliated Magazines, etc.]
Volume:
Screenland (May-Oct 1940)
Leaf #:
00067
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Television broadcasting -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Mid-range fan magazine. Ran from 1920 to 1952, at which point it changed its name to Screenland Plus TV-Land. Merged with Silver Screen in 1971 and ceased publication. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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Some of Kenny's pictures: Capitol dome at night; his wire-haired terrier; night scene at airport; highway near Yosemite; Texas tanks. and a darkroom built over the garages. Like many another man, Kenny was born, grew up, got through school and even got married before the camera bug hit him. "I don't remember ever having a paint box in my hand, after I grew beyond the kindergarten stage," he observed, "and I was never interested in sketching. When our first baby was coming, we decided it would be wonderful to have a record of the child's life ; so we bought a movie camera. I had the outfit, so I used it as often as I had time. Pretty soon I realized that color stuff was so far above black-and-white that I discarded all film except color. When I use the movie outfit, I don't bother with titles. I know lots of movie experts who write a title on the sand, for example, and then take a fan and blow it away. Or they have someone run on carrying the title written on a card, and then run away. But I don't bother. I let come what comes. "The trouble with movie stuff, though, is that you have to set up your screen and projector every time you want to look at what you've done. Sometimes, too, I would see a single shot that looked good and it seemed foolish and extravagant to use a movie outfit for them. So-o, I bought a Contax camera. Being used to color in my movie film, black-and-white didn't (Please turn to page 95)