The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
and
CLOSE-UPS
BY IRIS
Batting for LENS)

Is gathering guns, ammunition, /
hand Tenades, automatic rifles, |
and machine guns to be used in
making a film along the Yangtze
River, China Seems that the ia
vorite film company of the Chase
National Bankers decided that
bands Of rowing despersdoes" might
not like their notions Of what life
is like in territory not far from
where six different military cam
paigns against the spread Of the
Chinese Red Army turned out to be
victorious for that irresistible van
guard Of the Chinese workers and
peasants.
TIPS FOR STRIKERS: BY A
CAPITALIST NEWSREELMAN
Charles Beeland, Paramount News
carneraman after covering the recent
textile strike at Germantown, Pa,
tells the world:
With all this economic stuff that
il news nowadays, a cameraman
has to be QUILTED like a war cor
respondent. He takes along a set
Of filters for his camera suitable
for cutting through haze and fog.
When he can, he borrows a gas
mask from a state trooper and I've
seen lots OF cameras cranked by
masked men.
Generally he Is plsstered with
enough police cards and special
passes to satisfy a School of Jour-
nalism reporter, But they never
do any good. # the strikers get
the best OF fight they bust
cameras so there won't be any
evidence. If the cops win out, they
pinch the cameraman for luck and
grab his film in order that there
won't be any record of the hopping
up.
THE only strike where I ever felt
safe was in New Jersey, when
worked from an armored car. And
that was the time I didn't get
foot Of film. The car ran into a
ditch, the strikers turned it on its
side and I couldn't even get out to
run.
However, strikes are really not
bad and they often make mighty
good pictures. The funny thing
that everyone this year seems in
tereSted in them. Year before last
I covered fourteen Army and Navy
pictures and one industrial scene.
During the last year things have
been just about reversed. I made
only one shot of the good old
battleships and more than dozen
economic subjects"
MICKEY MOUSE RECOGNIZED!
by the League of Nations after
furious debate that lasted through
two armament confabs, four poker
games, and three small wars. The
League agreed (their first unari-
nous decision this year, to publicly
endorse Mickey Mouse, and what is
more to aggressively start a cam
paign for the free entry Of Mickey
to any league land. Mickey, we
think, should beware of those who
bear him gifts.
A "Wonder Picture"
Charles Butterworth, comic actor
says he saw picture the other
night that was advertised as q
wonder picture: he's still wondering
why 1t was made (He's telling
usD
To Charles Butterworth who not
only wonders why certain pictures
are made but evidently worries
about it, a revealing answer is Of
fered by Paramount, via Agnes
Christine Johnston in her analysts
of the secret of writing successful
movies" Miss Johnston, after COM
plotting the new Comedy" Private
Scandal" says THE secret of a sue
cessful motion picture is to keep
the audience worried-so worried
that they forget their own wor-
ries."
From far off Montevideo, Uru-
quay, comes news that will make
the movie magnates worry. Right
after May Day, the local fascist
agents of Mussolini found them
selves unable to go on with
showing of "A Man and A Nation,
the new Mussolini ballyhoo film
because of cries in the audience
DOWN WITH MUSSOLINI AND
FASCISMr'-"DOWN WITH ALL
FASCIST FILMS" and now in
New York, local Mussolini agents
planning to put on the same film
in the next few weeks under the
title of Black Shirts" are begin
ming to wonder what the audience
reaction will be. Well S.. A.
Mann Brand, the Hitler fascist
Film, never saw the inside of a
New York movie theatre. The
Film and Photo League ventures
the opinion that if BLACK Shirts"
ever does succeed in getting into
movie theatre its sponsors will
wonder why they ever thought of
bringing it to America.
COMING ATTRACTIONS!
Paste this in your hat or put 1t
in your pipe:
May 13-at Webster Hall two fine
films.
Red Head"
Killing To Live"
(By the Provisional Committee to
Support the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union)
May Wingding y (farwestern
expression for you'll have a swell
time')
Movies, photos, dancing at the
Film and Photo League, IL East
18th st.
(To Aid the Production of Work
ers' r1ewsreels)
May 20-Watch for details about
the most important newsreel show
ing Of the season
(By the Film and Photo League
for the benefit of the Communist