Show TRAVEL FILM SERIES WILL SET HIGH STANDARD First Release of New Departure Depar Depar- ture Will Be Made November 6 C. C L I. L. L Chester the executive head of C. C T L. L Chester Inc of Fifth avenue avenue ave aye nue nue the man who originated the idea of ot a series of travel films is about to Issue the tho first really high class series of ot this sort and will put them out at atthe atthe atthe the rate of one reel a we week k to exchanges throughout the country beginning with the first release on November 6 Six months ago he engaged three of the leading scenic cameramen trained them thoroughly for the worle and as asa asa asa a result already has feet of new negative His idea is to bring the travel tray trav el ci film up to the standard of the big up to the minute features features and anel instead of i taking scenery haphazard ever every scene is being carefully planned in the office before the cameraman goes out Light conditions receive as much attention as I they do in any of ot the f feature films films and I neither time nor expense Is being spared While the cost of ot the feature films said Chester yesterday has advanced from a dollar A 1 foot to anything from five dollars up in the tho last few years the average manufacturer gasps at the idea of spending more than from flOm thirty-five thirty to sixty cents a foot for the travel stuff Now everyone knows the public likes good wide awake well wellI I made travel and yet the tile material supplied to tho the exhibitor is so poor that they uso use it for chasers to empty their houses Years ago I made most of the trav- trav ed film for tor the Edison company the first organization to go into the travel stuff extensively and made with the aid of ot two camer cameramen men the very successful South American travel series for Para Para- mount In Ia the past no time or thought has been devoted to the travel film either before or after the cameraman left the office The manager would call in the cameraman and say ii When can you ou leave for Alaska The cameraman would reply Now SNow The manager would heave a roll of ot bills at him and yell a Shoot Not a a. book would be read not a thought given to the scenic scenia detail of Alaska The cameraman would stand on the tile back of the train and antI grind his c camera camera mera with one hand and cat eat his lunch with the other never payIng paying pay pay- ing any attention to light or anything else In our work every picture will be carefully thought out and 00 90 per cent of the scenes fanned in the office I have myself visited twenty-eight twenty countries countries countries coun coun- tries with a motion picture camera and have lived on every continent except Australia I know the weather and the light conditions thoroughly In taking a feature films film's exteriors the most minute calculation is made as to the tile exact time for the best light effect Perhaps it may be 11 1115 15 o'clock in irs the morning Exactly at that moment the scene will be taken talen We e will be Just Justas as particular I have havo beeh beets fortunate in securing as cameramen the three best motion picture pic pio- ture photographers in the industry They are Victor Miller W W. O. O Runcie and Raymond Angel Miller was with Pathe for many years Runcie was with Gaumont for several years and Angel made many of the best scenio and industrial films turned out by the Paris Eclair |