AMATEUR MOVIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 13

AMATEUR MOVIES

NO LIMITS TO FILM CHANCES

MATERIAL EVERYWHERE (By Homo vie.) A young Frenchman, six feet tall and broad shouldered, dressed in London tailored clothes, stood at a window and watched the April rain splash Into puddles of water which had gathered in the street. Dreary though the day was, there was no trace of its monotony in his face. He looked at the grey, foggy scene with animation as he talked rapidly in faintly accented English. “There is no limit to what the amateur can do with his camera,” he was saying. “Everywhere material lies waiting for him, just as it does for the painter. Take this rainy day, for example; he could make of it a. symphony in beauty. He could catch those little puddle of water by slanting the lens down like this,” and here Mr. Florey held an imaginary camera m front of him at a sloping angle. ‘Then he could go out and take a close-up ot the raindrops as they fell, leavingdozens of little rippling circles in their U “He could walk to the corner and shoot the tiny streams flowing down the street drain and, standing on the same spot, could catch the trickling water running down the brick wall of a building. There are hundreds of things to do with ram and such a delicate little film it would make. For human interest he could put in a drenched puppy scurrying across the street or an old woman plodding home with a soaked newspaper over her Florey, the director who recently finished “The Hole in the -Wall and “The Coeoanuts,” with the four Marx Brothers In the lead, was not sneaking as a successful director. He speaking as an am ateur who s'pends his spare moments shooting experimental pictures with his small camera in the byways and highmovie came Angeles or wherever he happens to be-for it is wnereve and he uses it as a writer 8 does his notebook. He began amiteur and experimenter and aS a “m of the high salary he gets torn spite ot the mß ona i h(j , g stiU an day as a pr . He possesses amateur “ d a ur l ge to try for new effects to struggle to put his ideas S about his start in the Hollvwood studios a few years the Hoiiyw hjg a g gresslo n, ago which j" sens jtiveness to impulsiveness g t hat he arrived impressions. It New York —havin Los Angel®* there from Paris —with ing just lande d without any a dime in Pockety an language . knowledge of the E g goods He spent all n in ~ the word reach Hollywood. See * h d ed) “studio (which be pt P y walked over and discovered a number through i - an about m funny cosot peoP l ® Us et that suggested France tumes on a s ®, dic , uloU Bly inaccurate to and yet va country thoroughly, one who knew getting ready to The characters walked over to act. The young ® sed the crowd the camera and a “ bis outraged in French, T P heir blundering concepfeeiings over like . “““'J continued next Wednesday)