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Show MAKES MOVIE PICTURE NOW f?oger Sullivan, Former Engineer, Disabled Dis-abled in Wonld War, Successful In Camera Work. . The fact that he was an engineer before the war may help him to understand un-derstand the mechanism of a motion picture camera, but the knowledge of proper lighting effects and other things Incident to the successful production pro-duction of motion pictures had to be learned by Roger Sullivan, after he was seriously disabled In the World war. Sullivan was wounded while operat-,.ing operat-,.ing with the United Naval forces in . France. After the war, young SullL van found that his injuries were such that he could not successfully "carry on" as an engineer. Under the supervision super-vision of the U. S. Veterans' bureau, tie entered a school of photography in New York and has completed a course In motion picture making and "still" photography. Sullivan and His Camera. Together with James E. Pelkey, another an-other disabled veteran who took the same course, Sullivan is producing a picture entitled "Another Chance." The picture depicts every stage through which a disabled veteran passes from the time he leaves the hospital until he has been completely rehabilitated In some school of vocational voca-tional training. The film closes with the picture of President Harding. The photograph of Sullivan "shooting" the President was taken by Pelkey. Sullivan and Pelkey spend their spare hours in the club rooms of the Washington Heights post of the American Amer-ican Legion in New York City. |