Evening star., 1922-10-22

ton is best demonstrated by
the fact that the public de-
mands pictures. pictures. pic
lures either movies or stills as the
single photograph is known among pho
toeraphers.
The great growth of the motion pic
ture industry cannot be fully appre-
ciated unless one visits some OF the
studios in California or at other points
in the United States. where literally
hundreds of thousands of miles OF pic
lures are taken each year. If one de-
sires to gain even faint idea OF the
number of still pictures that are used
in newspapers. magazines. etc. he may
observe the vastness OF this portion OF
the industry by taking the newspapers
that reproduce them, saving them for a
week. cutting out the pictures and past
ing them so that they form contin-
uous column Trea; the illustrations of
the magazines in the same manner. and
one finds that literally thousands of feet
of pictures are viewed by person each
month.
The average reader has come to ac-
and few give any heed to the vastness
of the industry or the numerous diff
culties that beset camera men in OBJ
tanning photographs for their edifica-
ton.
While. of course, the securing Of
snapshots by means of ligntning-llke
cameras or the taking Of thousands of
feet of films Is a hard and nerve rack
ing business. yet few ever stop to think
of the trials and tribulations that beset
the knights of the black box Little
heed do we pay to the dangers that
confront the alert camera man,
little heed to the rebuffs that he en-
counters during the course of a days
work, little heed to the fact that when
he has been sent out to get photo
graph he must, at no matter what peril,
secure the coveted film.
IOWADAYS. however. the picture
~ shooter" has a high powered
thousandth th-of-the-second camera that
needs but the touch of a button to op-
his Instruments where he can record
every action of anything that moves or
is moved. The life OF these knights Of
tho black box" however, is not one con-
tinuous round Of pleasure, for If you
listen to them and hear them relate
some OF their experiences you will
quickly realize that when 1T comes to a
nerve and energy game the
picture mans business just about heads
said the other day:
The nice captious critic that some
times condemns our work because a
picture happens not to come out ex-
actly right in every detail when it
is printed in the newspaper should
Just slide around with me for a week
and il he does not look like a fog
god plate at the end of the seven days.
then 1 am an underdeveloped mega
tive and q At subject for a modern
and up to- date BOBBY hatch.
Just let me relate a few OF the in
stances during the week just passed.
work for a pictorial news service.
and while 1 am supposed to be one of
the top-notch camera men in the
game, At the present time i am, to
the guy who sits in the head office and
gives directions. just sort of an
automaton, a thing that is just di-
rected to do q certain thing and must
attend to that particular job.
We have q new boss in our branch.
Monday morning. when l dropped
into the ONCE to fill my plate holders.
I found a scrawl which Indicated that
his chief highness wanted me to go
ont and get pictures OF a raid the
prohibition Officers were going to
make. OF course the people who dis
titled the stun were not to be tipped
of by seeing a couple of camera
hounds armed with shooters.
IAN alleged tip fioated into the Office
the other day that certain young ac-
tress was going to ride bicycle down
the Capitol steps, and when I arrived
on the scene found five other camera
men waiting for the fair one to do
her stunt About ten minutes after
ward 1 happened to notice another
man taking pictures Of us. We were
furnishing the material for the il