American Cinematographer - January 15, 1922 - 8

THE

AMERICAN

Looking for Oil
By W. W.

January 15, 1922

CINEMATOGRAPHER

CLENDENIN

In this picture, we have everything that a good picture should
have. We even have everything a bat! picture should have, and
we also have a few things no picture should have. We are highly

In Camerafornia
DON'T forget the Ball. If you do you'll be sorry when
you hear the girls and boys the morning after talking about the good time they ha~.
There are two Mitchell cameras on Nazimova's new
production. Cameraman Charles J. Van Enger owns one
of them and Madame Nazimova owns the other. The
Mitchell is rapidly winning recognition among the discriminating producers and camera masters.
Miss Bertha Carothers, the charming and efficient
young woman in charge of the information desk at the
Ambassador Hotel, will supply your ticket wants in
connection with the Third Annual Prosperity Ball of

the A. S. C. to be held at the Ambassador Hotel the
night of Saturday, February 4. Miss Corothers is on
duty from 9 a. m. to 4 p.. m., and from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.

c.,

Gus Peterson, A. S.
has joined the Federal Film
Corporation as director. One by one the A. C. S.'s are
taking to the megaphone, an evidence of the growing
appreciation by producers that the director should be
a master of the camera.
pleased at being able to present this work of art to our readers,
and we will be still more pleased jf they don't present it back to
us. It was hung at the 75th annual Senegambian
Salon of Photography, and we regret that it was not also electrocuted.
A discussion of the picture and its merits would go well here-it
you
don't go first.
The composition
is wonderful
in its repression.
Nothing
overdone here-just
as little composition as it is possible to have
-and
as you look at the picture, you seem to lose even that little.
The figure in the foreground
is predominant,
and is admirably set off by the oil wells on the horizon.
Observe how the eye
seeks first the face, and, failing to find any, is led down the figure
right into the ground.
The picture was taken in California, without a word of warning. A busted reflex was used, fitted with a Hyperion soft focus
wide angle anastigmat,
of a focal length that has never been
found out.
The stop used didn't, as is shown by the slight blur
in the figure.
The exposure was not recorded,
but 100% less
would probably have improved the result.
The plate used was
N. G. film.
The print was made by the glue and lampblack
process, and the highlights were put in with a canopener.
So far,
those who have looked at this artistic effort, have seemed well
pleased when they were through-some
of them were even glad
when they were through.
We will look for more prints from this
worker, and we hope we see him coming before he sees us.

An-Ak-Ron-Isms
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Joshua had just made the sun stand still.
"This is some stunt," he remarked to Andy Cump, who stood
near cranking his Ford, "and if I can keep it up Hollywood will
never be heard of as a motion picture center."
"Why?" asked Andy.
"Because
we can- have sunshine
here twenty-four
hours a
day."
The children of Israel had just crossed the Red Sea.
"No motion picture company will ever shoot a scene like this,"
said Levi McCinnnis
to Axel Skoog.
"Right-O,"
said Axel, and that was the first reference
to motion pictures ever recorded.

William "Billy" Foster, A. S. c., has been·won over
by the co-operative idea and is at work on a series of
comedies in which he will have a substantial interest.
And this reminds-keep your eye on this co-operative
thing-it may revolutionize the industry in time.

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