Show 1 I The Talkies Are Now I By y ROBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD Cal March 10 19 P IP Pj The Thc talkies arc are now To the thc casual observer in the thc studios it i t might seem the cameras all are succumbing to a virulent form of St. St Vitus Vilus dance but actually they arc merely obeying the demands of a moving technique now being stressed as never before The Thc moving camera technique isn't a new screen development by any means They were using it in Hollywood for silent pictures and the Germans had advanced the idea tre tre- tre Talkies stopped it still but it was revived at least two years ago by Rouben Mamoulian among others who for applause made his camera do everything but stand on its head The Thc same director in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde made his camera play a arole role that role that of Dr Jekyll Jekyll-by by reporting what Jekyll saw on a ride from house to college rather than showing Jekyll on the thc ride But only recently has Hollywood become so motion conscious so sensitive about camera angles asit as asit asit it is now In Grand Hotel the thc camera is I seldom stationary 1 In one scene it moves about the thc hotel spacious lobby on on a crane or on a dolly doll a camera camera cam cam- lera era cart and introduces every character character char char- earn I acter in the thc play in one continuous motion I The Thc huge camera crane first used in talkies by Paul for Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad way was used to follow Nancy Carroll Car roll and Phillips Holmes In their walk down the German street for Broken Lullaby The Thc great union depot set found cameras on wheels heels and cranes fol following lowing the principals through the crowds as though they had been human human hu hu- hu man eyes only more effectively Seldom now noi are players left alone as they go from one scene to another The camera like the audiences audience's eye eye travels with them them down down halls haIls through rooms into gardens up lanes for for continuous motion and the thc microphones mi ml- gangling overhead keep it company The camera even dances for the audience now Mounted on a ball ball- bearing turntable a camera follows Joan Crawford and Nils Asther in ina a tango through a crowded ballroom exactly as if it were another dancer watching them |