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...Hollywood last week, the American Society of Cinematographers awarded to two amateur cameramen the prizes which, for owners of miniature movie outfits, correspond to the awards which the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences give to cinema professionals. To R. B. Clardy, a Los Angeles commercial artist, went $250 for his 200-ft. film, New Horizon. A 20-year-old Japanese, Tatuschi Okamoto, who won the photography award two years ago, last week took $100 second prize with a picture called Tender Friendship...
Organized 17 years ago to provide a medium for distributing and testing new technical ideas, the A. S. C. has become the No. 1 technical club of Hollywood's cameramen. Its 400 members, including almost every important cameraman in the industry, rarely meet but contribute enthusiastically to the society's annual contests. The contests are governed by only two rules: 1) contestants must not have professional assistance; 2) they must not use 35 millimetre film and reduce it to the 8 or 16 millimetre sizes to which the contest is limited. Since it is impossible to detect reduced...
City editors last week ordered their cameramen to begin harvesting the winter crop of breadline pictures. For four years breadline pictures have been obtainable almost any month of the year, any day of the month, but the time when pictures are wanted is when there is text to go with them. Editors knew that the text was arriving: accounts of below freezing temperatures; William Green's assertion that "our relief problem this winter is the most serious this nation has ever faced"; the appropriation by New York City of its biggest relief budget ($19,000,000) for any month...
...Nast publications (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden, was told his work was good but he did not know "the right people." Thereupon he went out to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. As a professional photographer he is kind. In manner his pictures approach the clandestine snapshots of candid cameramen with their high speed lenses, but Jerome Zerbe uses only a standard news photographer's camera with synchronized flash bulb. None of the celebrities he has caught was photographed eating, yawning, scratching ears or picking noses. Some of them were drunk, but all knew their pictures were being taken...
...streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...