American Cinematographer - September 1, 1921 - 1
LOYALTY _.- PROGRESS -.- ART
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THE MEN WHO MAKE MOTION PICTURES
Copyrighted,
Vol. 2, No. 17
1921, by the AMERICAN
LOS ANGELES.
CALIFORNIA,
Every Church Its
At the Theatres
.Own Movie Theatre
Week of August 29
PhotoRdzaa'd ,
ALHAMBRA-"Scrap
Iron."
graphed
by
Geol'g'e S.
member
of the A. S. C.
CLUNE'S
BROADWAY
"The Gi 1'1
from
God's
Country."
Photographed by J. B. '''HIkeI',
CALIFORNIA-"Beating
the Game."
Photographed
h)' Ernest Miller.
GRAUMAN'S-"Footlights."
Photographed
by Hoy Ji'. Overbaugh,
mem bel' or the A. S. C.
GRAUMAN'S
RIALTO-"The
Great
Moment."
Photogr-aphed
b)' AIrred Dilks.
GARRICK-"Crazy
to Marry."
togj-a.phed by J\:al'l BI'O\\"]l.
bel' of the A. S. C.
1>110mem-
HIPPODROME - Monday Htckville
to Broadway."
graphed b)' Otto Brauttgan.
Wednesday-"The
Rider
King Log." Photographed
gene B'rench.
"Prom
]:>11000of the
by En-
HOLLYWOOD-Monday-"The
Outside Woman."
Photographed
by
Pall 1 Perr-y, member of the A.,S. C.
Tuesday
and Weduesday-c-v'I'he
Concert."
Photographed
by Geo.
webber.
KINEMA "God's
Country
and the
Law" and "The Fall Guy." Photogr-aphed
by H. H. Koenekamp,
member of the A. S'. C.
Mn .LER'S~· '''.rhe Connecticut
Yankee."
Photogr-aphed
by Lucian
Andrtot,
MISSION-"The
Three Musketeers."
Photogr-aphed b)' Ar-thur Edeson,
member of the A. S. C.
NEW
APOLLO Monday "The
Dollar a Year Man." Photogr-aphed
by Karl
Bra-wn,
member
of the
A. S. C.
Tuesday "The
Little
Fool."
Photogr-aphed
b~y Allen
Siegler,
member
of the A. S. C.
Wednesday
"Don't
Neglect
Your
Wife."
_.Photographed
by
Don Short.
PANTAGES
(Seventh
and Hill)"What's
a Wife Worth?"
Photographed
by Georges Benoit,
member of the A. S. C.
SUPERBA-"Luring
Lips."
graphed
by ViJ'boil Miller,
of the A. S. C.
SYMPHONY
Clergy."
OkeJ
"Without
PllOtographed
Photomember
Benefit
of
bJ' Jack
f
*
TALLY'S-"The
*
Golden
Trail."
WINDSOR Monday "The Home
Stretch."
Photographed
by Bed
Caun.
Tuesday-"To
Please One Woman."
}>llOtographed
b;r 'Vlllia,m
'C. ~"oster, member
of the A. S. C.
Wednesday
and
Thursday"The Easy Road."
Photographed
by Hal't')' PelT)'.
IN'l'EItNAIJ
GEi\SOUSHIP
Dr. A. '1'. Poffenberger,
of
Columbia University,
writing
in
the Scientific Monthly, says:
"If the motion
picture
is to
become
the
educational
force
that it is capable of becoming,
the censorship
must be an internal
one.
The old notion
is
outworn that it is necess,ary 'to
give the people what they want.'
It is tbe function
of an educational
medium,
and an entertaining medium also, to give the
public what they should have in
order that
they may learn to
want it. The function of education is to create as well as to
satisfy wants. The futm'e of the
motion
pIcture
is limited
only
by the foresight
of its leaders."
'Vill
There Soon Be a lillie of Fans
Wuttdng at the Church?
Is the motion picture exhibitor
soon
to stand in front of his theatre
and
watch the crowd now by to the pteture show at the Little Church 'Round
the Corner?
Will there soon be a long, sinuous
line waiting at the church to witness
from the pews a complete picture program' with organ or orchestral
accompaniment,
with musical feature
numbers by the choir. the quartette,
the
soloists,
and everything-save
alone
dancing?
As to the first question tbe answer
is, probably,
no, if producers
and exhibitors wake up to the fact that they
must show, not as the exception,
but
as the rule, clean,
wholesome,
constructive,
human pictures.
If they do
this they will win over the 13,000,000
church people who do not now attend
picture
shows but who, in their own
churches,
are Iearntng
to love
the
pictures
and to appreciate
their tremendous power for good. and who will
attend
the motion picture
theatre
if
the programs
offered are right.
The answer to the second question
is YIDS with a big Y. The church has
discovered
the motion
picture,
has
adopted it as a good and faithful
servant in the Christian
vineyard
and
bas begun to save souls with it. And
as a soul saver it is going to be a
wonder.
Yes, sir, every live church will soon
be its own picture show, with music,
features
and all the rest and there
may be a line, too.
Producers
are
awake to the needs of the churches,
and already
projection
machines
are
being installed
faster
than desirable
films can be made and the demand is
likely to exceed the supply for years.
In Kansas
City, Missouri,
for
instance, twenty of the leading churches
have
already
installed
picture
machines
and
many
small
town
churches
have them.
The south is a bit conservative
yet,
but the east, north, middle west and
west are falling
into line so rapidly
that very soon the projection
machine
will be as much a part of the church
equipment
as the collection basket.
And
the
churches
do not
want
gloom pictures,
or blue law pictures
01' prudery
pictures
or preachy
pictures-they
simply want
clean
pic,
. tures and they are going to get them
if they have to make them.
Don't be amazed if some day a great
church organization
announces
that it
is going to spend $50,000,000 making
motion pictures.
If a few of the wise
ones do not miss their guess the revulsion of church sentiment
in favor
of the motion pictures is going to turn
the movie world upside down.
All of which is not bad news for
the cameramen.
IN DAYS
GONE
SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS.
BY
R. J. Bergquist,
Metro,
was the
first cinematographer
to use a Bell
& Howell camera in the actual shooting ot moLion pictures
for the screen.
When Essanay
was in its full bloom
Mr. Bergquist,
as chiet
cinematographer,
proved all tbe cameras
that
came on the lot and he personally
tried
out the first thirteen
Bell &
Howell cameras
that were put on the
market.
Remember
that pretty little
Edna
Mayo?
Well
Bergquist
was
the artist
who first put her on the
screen.
Wonder whatever
became of
Edna?
It was while with Essanay
thaL Bergquist's
crew was caught
in
a squall off Wilson's
Beach in Lake
Michigan and his camera was washed
overboard
into
eighteen
feet
of
water.
It was rescued
after
eight
hou rs and the film was found to be
undamaged.
I,EEZElt
IS ·'VRI'.I'ING
John Leezer, clever writer on subjects
cinematographic,
is
spending
bis vacation
writing
clever
articles
on subjects
cinematographic.
September 1, 1921
TEN CENTS A COPY
To Film Wonders
of the Body
The Sthnla
Shat'ir:=t ''''ill
Yield
Mal'vels to the ~Iotioll Pictures
Its
Did you know that you had a sthula
sharira?
Well you have.
Look in the
mirror and what you see there is your
sthula sharira-pronounced
s-toola sha-ree-ra, accent on the 1'ee,
Psalms 139-14.
"I wil l praise thee;
for I am fearfully
and wonderfully
made."
Science shows that
all
of
"the lowest parts of the earth"
are
molecular
fountains
of the
human
body.
All of tbe atoms of our bodies
have been, at one time or another,
a
part of plants of the earth, or in rocks
and in the sea, and the Creator
in
infinite
wisdom
has
guided
them
through
intricate
ways to their destination
in the human
body.
No wonder
that David exclaimed,
"I
am
fearfully
and
wonderfully
made."
The human
body has
five
hundred
muscles;
the blood
weighs
thirty-two
pounds;
the
heart
beats
seventy-two
time per minute,
100,800
per day or over
thirty-six
million
times
per
year;
each
heart
beat
pumps two and one-half
ounces
of
blood through the body, or over eight
tons per day.
The lungs breathe
1200 times per
hour, taking
in 24,000 gallons of air
per day.
The skin covers 2000 square
inches and is under a pressure
of
fonrteen
pounds per square inch, or
twenty tons for the whole body.
The
prespiration
tubes of the skin number
3500 per square inch, each one being
about one-fourth
of an inch 101Lo' Dr a
total length of nearly forty miles.
The machinery
of the human body
includes
a pulley,
lever,
inclined
plane, hinge,
universal
joint,
tubes,
trap doors, scissors, grindstone,
whip,
arcb, girders,
filters, valves, bellows,
pumps,
camera,
Eolian
harp,
irrigation plant, telegraph
and telephone.
No human arch is as perfect as the
pel vis no cathedral
bas more perfect
girders;
no stream
is as full of life
as the blood.
The human voice is a
violin,
harp, trumpet
and all other
instruments.
The body is self-regulated with heat and cold.
'I'he body
has self-acting
chemical
laboratories.
The eye itself has its dryplate,
lens,
dark curtain, and is self-focusing,
selfloading,
self-developing,
and
takes
billions of pictures in colors every day
and enlarges them to life size.
Can the cameraman.
film all this?
He can-nearly
all of it.Watch
and
see.
Just Don't, That's All
The
Cameraman
Offel's a
to the Novice
Few
Tips
Don t' try
to
fill the eye of the
camera.
It will get you anyway and,
moreover,
there may be others in the
cast entitled
to a showing.
Modesty
is almost the rarest
of virtues.
Build your part in mind before you
go on the set.
If you can't
think
you can't be sIncere and if you are
not sincere
you can't be convincing.
Don't give the director
credit
for
knowing
anything.
He is paid all
the way from $500 to $5000 a week
just to be bossy and ornamental.
It
is likely you know more about making pictures
than he does,
but
be
patient
wit.h him and maybe he will
learn ill time.
Don't
get it into your head that
motion
is all the "action"
there
is.
You can get over more in a closeup
showing
repression
than in a month
of table pounding-if
you think and
feel.
Don't think of your work.
Think
of your pay check,
Remember
you
are paid fOr lapse of time-not
for
the
use value
you put
into
the
picture.
Membership ~otes
J.JONGS :FOI-t HOLLY'VOOD
Henry
Cronjager,
with
Director
Henry King, at the old Biograph
Studio, New York, is longing for Hollywood.
Mr. Cronjager
is helping
to
make
Richard
Barthelmess
famous
but would rather
do it
among
the
palms and pepper-trees.
BILLY .FOS'I'En. wrr n LUCAS
Treasurer
William
C. Foster, A. S.
C., has been on location in the Mojave
Desert with the New Era Film Corporation,
featuring
Wilfred
Lucas.
Mr. Foster's
professional
home is at
the National
Studios during the filming of this picture.
ASl{ GUY; HE: liNO'VS
L. Guy Wilky supports
the dignity
of daddy-hood
with ease and grace.
To hear Guy hold forth on the care
of children
one would fancy him a
great-gt-and tather
instead
of
the
rtroud father
of jqst one.
But, then,
Guy is young yet.
Wait.
CHA'RT1JE LIliES
GEOHGES
George Rizard, who helped to make
Jackie
Saunders,
Ruth Roland, Bahy
Marie Osborne,
Mary
Miles
Minter,
Henry Wathall,
Gail Kane and many
other stars, seems to be a uermauent
fixture in the Charles
Ray organization.
SOTJ POLl'rO
'VITH ROSEN
Salvadore
Polito's
latest
achievement
is "Handle
With
Care,"
the
Rockett's
feature
etar-rtng Grace Darmond. Mr. Polito's masterly
composition in this feature won the enthusiastic commendation
of Director
Philip
E. Rosen who engaged him at once for
his next picture.
FRED JAOI{MAN
AU'.rHOR
President
Fred W. Jackman,
A. S.
C., veteran
cbief cinematographer
of
the Mack Sennett
Studios, may write
a book on the subject:
"The Camera
in Comedies."
Mr. Jackman,
who has
risked life and limb many a time to
record
a laugh-getting
situation
has
thrilling
material
enough in his experience
to make several books.
BECKW AY IS IN MEXICO
William
Beckway,
the
long
lost
Beau Brummell
of the A. S. C. has
been discovered
at Chapala, Old Mexico, where he is dazz l ing the senoritas
with his gorgeous sartorial
embellishment and incidentally
doing the cinematographing
for a Spanish film company.
Jackson
Rose
declares
that
Beckway is the J. Waldere
Kirke of
cameramen.
ROSHER
LEA VES MAlty
Cbarles G. Rosber has been granted
leave of absence by Mary Pickford to
photograph
Norma
Talmadge
in
"Smilin'
Thru."
Mr. Rosher left for
New York immediately
after shooting
the last scenes of "Little Lord Faun~
tleroy."
Mr. Rasher
and Mary have
worked
together
for so many years
that be'll be calling
Miss Talmadge
Mary if be doesn't watch out. He will
return
to the old homestead
after
putting Miss Talmadge on the map.
IS nus A UECORJ)?
John
Arnold,
Metro
cinematographer,
believes he holds the record
for continuous
photographing
of one
star.
He was
assigned
to
Viola
Dana the day this clever young woman began her first picture at l\ietro
and be has been steadily
ou the job
ever since.
That was more than six
years ago and since that first picture
Miss Dana has never
been
photo~
graphed
in a single scene except by
Mr. Arnold.
If this isn't a record
Ml'. Arnold would like to hea.r from
the cameramaster
who can beat it.
In her current
picture
Miss Dana introduces
a novelty
in a Russian'
dance filmed by a slow motion
camera.·
Mr. AnlOld says this
is
the
first instance
of the use of ,a slow
motion camera
in a feature
picture.
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