Universal Weekly (1933-1935)

UNIVERSAL WEEKLY Sept. 28, 1935 Howard Winner, at the head of Universal’ s newsreel expedition into Ethiopa. Winner arrived at Addis Ababa on Monday of this week. Universal Newsreel Cameraman Arrives In Ethiopia A CABLE from Addis Ababa informs Charles E. Ford, editor of Universal Newspaper Newsreel, that his camera expedition headed by Howard Winner has arrived by plane from Aden and has already sent the first shots by way of London to the newsreel. These shots will be ready for inclusion in the Weekly which goes out on October 9th. Cameraman Winner has settled himself for a siege and has ordered gas masks, steel helmets and bullet-proof vests for his work. Universal also has cameramen with the Italian forces both in Somaliland and Eritria. Films from this expedition will come to Universal by way of Rome. Those Amazing "Camera Thrills'' ONE of the most amazing things about one of the most amazing pictures of the year, "Camera Thrills," is the sound effects. And the most amazing part of it is that there isn't one single sound effect in it. Paradoxical as this may seem, it will only be apparent to those who see the picture for the second or third time. And most everybody will want to do that, and most everybody will do it. "Camera Thrills" starts off in a four weeks' premiere at the Center Theatre, Rockefeller Center, New York, which is re-opening on October 2nd on a long-run policy. "Camera Thrills" was selected from all the short features available for the opening of the season by the management of this theatre. When the selections committee emerged from the projection room, one of the most frequent comments on the picture was, "The sound effects are wonderful!" And still there is not one single sound effect in it. To explain this strange phenomenon it is necessary to tear away the veil of mystery that surrounds moving picture production. It is no disloyalty to the producers of this picture to state that "Camera Thrills" goes back to first principles in moving picture production. These principles were created and established before sound came into the picture. It was early discovered that the most effective adjunct to a picture was music. Music is that art which affects the passions by sound. In its way it is even more arousing than vision. "Camera Thrills" once actually did have sound effects, some taken while the picture itself was being shot, and some manufactured in the regulation manner in the studio, but when Charles Ford heard the completed musical accompaniment which Milton Schwarzwald had made for the first reel, he definitely abandoned any idea of sound effects in favor of the gorgeously interpretative score which Mr. Schwarzwald had writen. So true to the art and so unobtrusive and so arousing is this musical accompaniment that scarcely a person in any audience will realize that he hasn't heard one single sound effect in the entire two reels. "Camera Thrills" is so gripping and full of Tilden Signed by Universal For “ The Amateur Racquet ” UNIVERSAL has purchased from the authors of "King Solomon of Broadway," which will come to the Roxy soon, a new story dealing with tennis. Albert J. Cohn and Robert T. Shannon, who have writen several other successful movies, call their latest moving picture story, "The Amateur Racquet." action climaxes. Rather! See Next Week's Weekly!