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Hollywood — The Qa??tera-man
gives mystery. With the thousands of effects possible, a good camera-man can either assist his director or handicap him unbelievably. A good director may make an excellent film with second-rate actors, but he cannot make any kind of film at all without the assistance of a good camera-man.
The lighting is supplied even out of doors by concentrated batteries of lamps, either arc or incandescent, and by large reflectors made of silver-paper. These have to be adjusted to their utmost photographic possibilities by the camera-man, who must estimate the resultant photograph by looking at the scene through properly tinted glasses. But the capacity of inventing new methods of lighting, and of composing novel dramatic effects by means of light, is clearly rare. How rare it is may be realized by looking for it in a number of films. And what a satisfaction is felt when this quality is found ! Thus the really brilliant camera-man is one of the happy persons of Hollywood. No actor could possibly have come back under the conditions of Harry Hitzler. Directors and stars may come and go ; they depend on the fickle faithfulness of the box office. They have to hunt for their next jobs. But the efficient camera-man has a good contract in his pocket, with no Purity Clause, and he deserves it.
The process of regulating the huge lamps to fit a picture is accompanied by a picturesque slang of which the following phrases are examples :
Nigger off them broads. Another silk on that one. Move your kidney out a bit. Throw down that wampus. Make that baby a bit hotter. Kill your scoops there. Use an inkey for this. Swing that sun over. Hit that thirty-six.
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