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Hollywood's New
Film - Making Technique
Outside Stage 2 on the couple of weeks while Director] The pace mounts faster add Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot, a John Ford was laid up with a faster until the pursuing car studio guard paced up and broken leg. So, when he was finally draws abreast and erash- down; questioned all persons released from service, it was es into him. Marlowe's кар who tried to enter and turned decided that he should be both swerves dizaily off the road most of them away.
star and director of "Lady in and crashes inte, a telephone* the Lake."
pole.
Nailed on to the heavy "refrigerator" door leading to the stage was a sign that read: CLOSED SET. POSITIVELY NO VISITORS!
oddly hushed set, an expactant Inside the stage itself, on an crew clustered about to watch.
Man Of Mars
Then followed a feverish preproduction hustle and bustle during which the script was written and rewritten several still seemed to lack that certain times-but to Montgomery it
spark.
Then he exploded his depth charge. "Why not," he sug- gested, "Alm this story com- pletely from the detective's
By H. LIGHTMAN
A cameraman, looking like a citizen of Mars, stood with
to his shoulder by means of a a full-sized camera strapped on
special harness. Facing him glowered a tough-looking char- acter, who, at a signal from viewpoint, so that everything the director, suddenly hauled the audience sees will be wha off and sent a brassknuckled fist he acca?" crashing squarely into the lens of the camera.
This was revolution. There were dire reverberations in The man with
the camera high places. staggered violently, stumbled and pitched forward on to the floor. The director leaped from
is chair, yelled "Cut."-and the assembled crew burst into cheering applause.
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Later he comes to and, hear- ng pchce siren. rumb ander the car to watch from that vantage point while the police check the accident,
He then drags himself out. staggers down the road clutch- ing telephone poles for support. and finally comes to igns station, where he flings himself into the telephone booth to dial a number for help. All this with the camera as the eye of the detective.
The film naturally posed Jumber of brand-new problems. For the technicians it was nip. and-tuck all the way.
A Challenge-
than those of today, could just actor Robert Montgomery-just lined his plans. The executives like a hook and ladder..
CX-
on
the
A brutal
would do likewise.
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By Dick Turnar
PAT, OFF
"Under past experience' do you mean just work?”
Life Of Chamberlain
A Greek Tragedy
Mr.
con-
Incredible Things First of all, a special camera ruck or "dolly" had to be con- Producer Haight agreed to thi.
trusted-one that could "walk" approach-but the final decision
hrough doors easily. rested with the M-G-M execu-
For
this purpose John This unusual performance tive board, a crew of shrewdly- marked the start of annoting on commercial, acutely box-office Arnold. A.S.C., head of M-G-Ma prior to the Pacific War that
amera department, devised a those called up for jury service, "Lady in the Lake."
revolutionary motion picture, minded business men. from lists appreciably greater director and
Its
Montgomery went before the contraption with wheels on both star is veteran board, stated his case, and out-ends and a steering apparatus He
Hifiably complain that the
testa. also designed the special har- Oc-back from the wars.
What acts told him to make some
and bracket for the casional duty imposed upon them it apart from all other movies The
resultant experimental ness was seriously prejudicial to busi- is a style of fiming never be shots were so sharply origina!) battery-driven, camera worn by
Keith Felling's "Life of time, and no individual, stands, IC interests. In the last few fore used to tell a
complete that the executives told Mont- the cameraman.
To Director of Photography Neville Chamberlan" is an cx- between me and that office, I months, that complaint has story on the screen.
gomery to go ahend. frequently been made and while
In the course of portraying Faul Vogel, A.S.C., all this was cellent biography: it is full, fair, wonder whether Fale has some Novel Technique
De stmulating challenge..
lucid and well composed. It does dark secret in store, to carry out the court system has been
At several points in the story net make, and claim to be the her ironies to the end." nandified
So novel, is this technique the hectic adventures of to case the situation that during production
all tective Marlowe, the camera, as
It is this which explains his newhat, it holds good in many technicians working
his "eye," does some incredible Montgomery is seen in front of last word on the Munich the
Every mirrors, and the problem there troversy.
year, every autocratic handling of policy, his instances. Another possible
things.
criticism his reflection month almest, fresh evidence be- tendency to regard all picture were pledged to secrecy;
was to show planation of Government's reluc journalists and all studio.
It smokes a cigarette, puffing without showing either the man comes available, and since Mr. as some unworthy personal af- -per-
Feiling completed his book. the front. It is tils also which -ex- himself or the camera. tance to bring women into the sonnel not specifically assigned smoke rings from under
(although it cannot jury lists derives from the
Moreover,, the camera's point Ciano diaries and the memoirs of plains. fact to the film were barred from lens. It breaks down a door by
egregious that the initiative has never cumar the act; details of the picture throwing itself against the of view had to simulate his the
Georges Bonnet justly) his habit of conducting" om the women themselves. It were not even discussed between panel. It is given has been entirely a man's idea. mouthfuls of Shrimp Louis in third degree at police head-on, and he had to co-ordinate have come to throw a new and foreign policy behind the back
diplomacy of It quarters with bright lights, his movements so that when he startling light upon the secret of the Foreign Office. In February. 1936. But it can 1838, for instance, he engaged in That however does not destroy the M-G-M. commissary.
or walked toward the mirror
with mcsta personal correspondence glaring into the lens. It en- the basis of a suggestion which was all very hush-hush.
authoritative statement yet Musselini on the Abyssinian has its origin in the desirability
Now the film is completed and gages in hand-to-hand, knock- away from it, the camera "eye" rertainly claim to be the
published, or likely to be publish-question: "I did not," he records the down-drag-out combat with a of spreading the work over an ex- the secret of "Lady In
fed, upon Chamberlain's attitude in his diary, "show my letter to 'Live' Camera panded register of those com-Lake" can be revealed. Here is would-be killer. It is beaten,
of mind. The priváte papers of the Foreign Secretary for. I had petent in perform it. There are,
a film in which everything that slapped, kicked and socked in
Filming called for a wide
the feeling that he would object to it." of course, scores of women who appears on the screen is shown the eye by assorted assallants.
as it is seen by the hero. The It makes violent love to Audrey departure from previously stan come within this category, many camera lens is his eye all the
dardised techniques. The Totter. of whom would be quite willing way through the picture...
Miss Totter plays this scene catneraman, for instance, brow- to a just verdict give according In the conventional motion with her check up against the beaten for years into believing the Chamberlain family have been ference with the lobby Johrnalists to the evidence," and who have picture, the camera stands. by camera lens, practically chewing that each scene should be pre-placed at Mr. Peiling's disposal in which he expressed an the added advantage of rather in the role of
disinterested on the matte-box while whisper-cisely framed and centred, was more time to spare during busi-observer and records the action ing sweet nothings into the suddenly told to forget all that and he has used them with in-optimism of which his Forcign in sequences where the hero'egrity and skill. It is more than Secretary, had he known of it,
certainly not have 'an píficial bicgraphy; It is an im- would ness hours than the average man. without actually taking part in contraption's microphonic ear. As for those who might, be un-it.
One of the most exciting point of view was a bit un-portant contribution to historical proved. IL WAE this which
literature.
him- willing, it would not be illogical
templed him to surround But in "Lady In the Lake," sequences in the film-and one balandzd.
relf
BC with secondary and to apply the same measures
of the camera and the story's hero which gave the photographer, It was difficult for the cast
The story as told by Mr. quiescent advisers and 10 We mechanical nightmares-isa to learn to look at the camera
delay persuasion as are applicable to are one and the same.
the and actually play their scenes Filing, has all the pity and terror too long the admission of Chur- their menfolk. In a Colony which hear his voice, we see his hands, chase, with Marlowe, at
into the lens.
of a Greek tragedy. I am not chill and Eden into his Cabinet. is presumed to be in process of we are constantly aware of his wheel of his car, as quarry.
We see his reflection in the Actually, everyone working using those words in their cont was this which led him to constititional changes which will presence-but we do not actually windshield and the road wind- on the film had to adopt a new ventral sense; the analogy is underestimate the demonic confer upon residents
see him except when, at scat- ing away before him. Then he point of view. They had con- that one has the whole appars- terpret, both to himself and to
humbly exact. It is not merely quality in Hitler and to misin greater measure of self-Government, the
tered intervals in the plot, he
sees "in the rearview mirror stantly to regard the camera asr of a Greek drain, with its inclusion of wainen among those appears before mirrors.
As Phillin Marlowe, private that a car is pursuing him. He able to jury service must surely detective, Robert Montgomery turns to look at it out of the appear to be a normal sort of step. Whatever franchise is final to the audience. As he talks starts to tell his story directly ly decided upon. it seems fairly there is a dissolve, and every- certain that women will be con- thing seen on the screen from ceded a vote. There can be no there on is shown as it appears sound argument in opposition; to him. and none has been heard. It is!
To be sure, the basic idea of
not a difficult stride from that this approach is not new. Sub- acceptance-of-the-eivie re-jective shota, in which the
back window:
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay "The Authority on thorities"
By HAROLD NICOLSON
45
In March, 1939, less than
week before the occupation. of Prague, he held a personal con-
1
ap-
his countrymen, the deep
a living, breathing person. That desis and lusis, its chorus and its humillation of the Munich set- they were able to do so is a strange stiff words; : it. Is not
tlement. tribute to Director Montgomery.merely that the tragedy is repre-
senied
Mr. Felling, may have meant - conflict between to write a
ต "defence" of Nevilla Fate und individual character; Chamberlain. It is not a defence, le that we are brought into the it is an explanation. Yet when presence of two different forms all is known and all is publish- of hubris: the megalomania ofed, his integrity, as distinct from Hitler and Chamberlain's mas-his intelligence, will remain un-
erful sense of 'mission...
assailable. And the words which The moral and intellectual certi-Churchill spolce, in that finest tudy which Inspired Neville sponsibility implied iri jury camera is for a moment placed
of all English funeral orations, West led his club K and fol- Chamberlain's actions, and which will remain essentially true. In the position of one of the
flowed with the Q, noting East's rendered him blind to many more characters, have been used 'be. In some unusual situations, a and finally led the 3 to the third stical than ordinary arrogar.ee,
10-8 high-low. Then he studied
human factors, was more my- fore-usually as a novelty, as different message of a definite TRAINING PROJECT world would look through the cach
for instance to show how the nature
trick. East thought thus: "West iner than accustomed.conceit. It would be conveyed by is marked with the A; If Southused to perplex us, who watched Today's "Flower Day" ar eyes of a drunken mon.
card you might chose to had another club, "West would rangements, designed to provide
lead from a particular suit. Your have led that to make sure
him; day to day, that so sensitive But "Lady In the Lake" is lowest would tell your partner would discard and save
aman could possess such dark funds to enable a start to be made the first feature to Re this to return. the lower-ranking of trumps sp West had six
cards self-confidence, that a. man of in a big scheme for the education technique to tell an entire story, the other two side sults when he and South is now blank. It West such evident sensibility should be of the children of artisans, de-It is sure to cause a good deal got the lead, the card just above wanted
service.
serve
WHEN ANY CARD
TALKS
my
to give me a signal to so positive that he was right.
World Afraid Of
generous public support. of comment pro and con; it that would tell him to ruff with return the lower-ranking dia-The problem set to his blographer Hollywood
Education along the lines
Since he did none
these, his
admixture of thistle and thistle-
en may even stand Hollywood on his highest card to force a higher monds instead of the higher-rank was to explain and justify this visaged should, of course, be
one from declarer, the one above hearts If I got in later, he would down: Mr. Felling, has dealt with a) its ear.
Chicago, Jan. 10. commitment of Government and
The film is based on Raymond that would tell him to return the have led his Icwest, the Z, If he this problem with tact,
The United States Assistant nor left to develop out of the Chandler's two-fisted whodunit higher-ranking side sull, and your wanted the higher-suit returned social consciences of private in- of the same name.
We have the picture of a lone-Secretary of State, William: top card would tell him not to later, hearts, he would have used. motherless boy, segregated Bentoh, said yesterday that in It was dividuals. Some time must, how- pommelled into
a fustpaced, to discard on it.
ruff the current trick at all, but the 5, highest of his small cards, within a narrow Unitarian circle. America Sims are just "movies," ever, elapse before the adminis-
£ometimes
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brutal screen play by Scenarist stage of financial stability which will
Steve Fisher, permit a substantial increase i the provisions for primary and The plot concerns the afores J 10 6 technical education of those whose mentioned detective, Marlowe, parents cannot afford tuition who, for "ten bucks a day and D.A 8. fess. And since there is a lot to expenses," is retained by the Inse and nothing to gain by wait- sultry female editor of a chain
C. AKQ ing, the promoters of this train- of crime magazines to keep an
532 ing centre, scheme are entitled to eye on her boss's wife, the encouragement of a ready. The story behind the story
Dramatic Plot
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Director-Star Robert Mont- (Dealer: public utility concerns, factories gomery the campaign to get vulnerable.) and so on, with the rudiments of to the screen has been a per-
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250,000 wasted in ». trying to
He told the Chicago Council
a trump trick for West with his owsial in the Bahamas; of on Foreign Relations that the J-10-6.This trick, plus the' din- mond A, beat the contract.
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the humiliating fiasco of his few retent UNESCO meeting in months as Director of National Paris, disclosed a feeling in Service. Neville, Chamberlain,
Solitary And Ascetic
was a late flowering plant. He some nations that largely "bolls" did not marry until over 40 and down to a fear of Hollywood"... his-malden speech was
"The very technical, genfus made when he was 50. years old. ·.
of Hollywood. which makes its pictures sought after and bo lieved by the masses of. tho people of the world terrifies Gradually the "disciplined; effl-intellectuals and politicians in [čency" "cf his mind established these countries when they hear
his thruence in the of various tools and machines gomery was still bounding
Commons their children speaking English and in the Cabinet while his with an American accent, using which will serve thear valuably about the briny deep as a com(signal come only once in some
tremendous labours as Minister American slang ang discussing when they are ready to follow in mander. In the Navy, M-GM terrific length of time. That is the
of Health camed him wide re-love; divorce admurder in father's footsteps. It is estimated purchased, the film rights to the trick with as high a card as he signal to your partner to ruff a
pute. Gradually also there grew Hollywood, Epigrams,"" Benton that over 50,000 children will story and carmarked it, for pro can hoping he can force from
within his solitary and ascette declared. D. KQ 107 come within the purview of the duction as soon as he should declarer
Imind the mystic conviction of AK 10,5
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jpredestination: Advan
facing UNESCO, declared Ben Dealer: East. Neither side vul- "I am not a superstitious man" no small proportion of the stripe..
up a trimp trick for you. An nerable,
ton. He said of UNESCO that The wrote do his, aister in 1037 Colony's"""poor, child" population. Since 1988 Montgomery has example of that was given just a Seeking 4-Heart. South Tuff and Indeed I should not great "to experiment in international Facilities for their education will cherished the ambition to direct few weeks ago, and now comes the first trick of the spade 11ly care if I were never to be cooperation ever held lets dan- therefore. represent a substantial While he was working on "They another hand sent in by "5,0.5" and A. and leads the heart 1 Prime Minister. But when I think ger or more promise for the gain, Hong Kong's social Were Expendable," he took of Oklahoma City with the same the K. When the spade 6 is re- of Father and Austen, and reflect future peace and well being of
over the directorial rein for a play."
turned, what should South: do? that less than three months of mankind” Associated Press
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