The Seaforth News, 1959-03-19, Page 2Tricks Of The
Movie Camera
Donald I. Ker, a well-known
hunter who has conducted
safaris for filming units in East
Africa, was once a lion! The
script called for one charging'
the cameras — a difficult shot to
arrange -- so the director de-
eided that a long shot of Ker
springing out of a bush horizon
tally into tall grass would make
a good fake,
Three men, placed at ten -foot
Intervals in the low bush, were.
ordered toshake each bush in
turn to make it appear that the
lion was charging through the
scrub. With a' khaki jacket over
his head, his arms outstretched
through the sleeves, Ker dived
on to cushions hidden in the
grass. The "white hunter" fired.
The "client," supposed to be a
coward, ran off down a rocky
slope,
But during several rehearsals
and takes Ker's limbs became
bruised, the "client" sprained an
ankle, the onlookers couldn't
restrain their mirth at the un-
realistic scene, So permission was
obtained to locate a real lion and
film it close up, well within the
200 yards legal limit from a
vehicle.
Some film companies, Ker says,
in "Through Forest And Veldt"
spend huge sums sending a unit
out, take up to 200,000 ft. of film,
then probably use only about
1,000 ft. of it. The rest of the
film is made on painted screens
of "Africa" in the studios, or
"African" settings outside Holly-
wood or in Mexico.
Where stampeding zebra had
to jump over rooks sheltering the
heroine, the "zebras" were Mexi-
can mules painted with black and
white stripes and worked into
a frenzied panic, Tame African
elephants are rare and difficult to
obtain for films, so an Indian one
from zoo or circus is often used
instead; but as its ears are much
smaller artificial extenhions are
added.
Once he worked with a photog-
rapher who wanted a lion kill-
ing a native. They concentrated
on a pride of lions which, after
some weeks, became tame and
accustomed to them. Then they
stuffed a pair of Ker's old khaki
bags and shirt full of zebra meat,
to resemble a human body, and
drove with it to the pride which
were sitting waiting for the daily
meal they had now come to ex-
pect.
The "native" was thrown to
them from the back of the truck,
and one of them pounced on it,
shook it, and ran off into cover.
Later, the bloodcurdling death
cry of the "man" evidently strug-
gling in the lion's jaws was add-
ed in Hollywood.
Ker once lent his second gun -
bearer, a Masai, to a film com-
pany which wanted him for a
leading part in a picture being
shot partly in Kenya.
Later, he had to go to Holly-
wood for six months to complete
it. He then returned to Nairobi
with much money, six well -cut
lounge suits, two gold teeth, a
command of U.S. Negro's Eng-
lish, and some incredible stories
of what happened there "The .
hwanas made some big rubber
things," he said, that looked like
hippos. They were inflatedand
pulled under water by wires. A
canoe carrying people was pad-
dled down -river, and as it floated
ever the "hippos" the wires were
released, they bobbed to the
surface, upsetting the craft, and
everyone swam to the shore in
the "crocdile"-infested waters,
In recent years some profes-
sional photographers have made
Alhns of captured animals living
ISSUE 11 — 1959
in compounds surroundedby
strong mesh wire camouflaged
with bushes and trees to re
semble the African wilds. The
cameras are set up behind the
wire, or even iron bars, and the
"brave" photographer gets a pic-
ture of the beast "ferociously
charging" in answer to its name
being ealledi
While some faking may be ne-
cessary, within reason, Ker con-
siders that educational films of
natural history should be free
from sham. It is a pity that pro-
ducers are not forced by law to
declare whether their 'films are
part faked or wholly genuine,
and that all natural history films
for the general nubile are not
certified by a Board of Natural-
ists and any fakes disclosed. He
has seen many films of big game,
tribes and African life in general
so badly faked, and with such
misleading narration that they
give an entirely false impression,
The Martin Johnson's, whom
he knew well, were among the
first to take excellent pictures
of game iii their natural hibitat,
Their first, he thinks, was the
best — unfaked and genuine,
with no tame or zoo animals
brought into it — whereas in
some later pictures captive ani-
mals played -a large part.
The rest of Ker's book is a
vivid account of his own hunt -
experiences, with intimate
studies and photographs of the
wild game he knows so wed.
Who started This
Trouser Business ?
Attempts are being made by
a group of social historians in
France to discover the identity
of the first man to wear trousers
in Europe.
They believe it was a French-
man, but no one can 'say for cer-
tain. What is certain is that it
was not an Englishman.
One learned professor who has
done months of research into this.
question has found that leg -wear
of a trouser type — not trousers
as we know them to -day — was
introduced to Western civiliza-
tion by the northern tribes who
broke up the Roman Empire.
Up to that time men were
trouser -less. The man who went
about in a short skirt and bare
knees reckoned himself well
dressed.
Trousers were first worn in
England about 160 years' ago.
Those early English trousers, in-
troduced by the dandies of the
period, were terribly tight -- so
tight that men attending social
functions in them for the first
time complained that they could
not sit down.
An unsuccessful quest was be-
gun in Britain six years ago for
the name of the first man to
turn up his trousers permanent-
ly. Sir Henry Bashford, a one-
time physician to King George
VI, even suggested that there
should be a permanent memorial
to his great feat. "No philoso-
pher, hero or statesman can ever
have set an example so long and
so fervently followed by somany
millions of men," he remarked,
A man who lost his trousers
flew into London Airport from
Ceylon not long ago and stepped
on to the windy tarmac after
flying 6,000 miles in pale -blue
swimming trunks, white plim-
solls and a thin nylon shirt.
The temperature was round
about the 100 mark when he
stepped aboard the 'plane in Col-
ombo, so he put on the trunks
for the first stage of the journey,
intending to change into his trou=
Sers as the weather cooled down.
But when the airliner reached
Rome he found he had left his
trousers in his registered luggage
in the freight hold underneath
scores of their suitcases. There
was no time to get them before
the 'plane took off for London,
LONG WAY ROUND — A Ted Mack contest winner, then a oafs
singer, it took years in Tokyo to bring Jimmy Shigeta, canter,
to a real break in U.S. movies, He was born In Honolulu and
had to learn Japanese when he started his Tokyo career. Hes
shown 'here :with Producer -Director Samuel Fuller and co-star
Victoria Shaw.
HIS ROME AWAY FROM HOME — Ricky Noel, 2, is back in the
hospital for the seventh time in his short _life. The hard -luck
kid, son of Mrs. William Noel of Cleveland, Ohio, tipped a pot
of scalding coffee over his legs and right arm. Once he dived
off his bed and cut his head; then he fell in a wash bucket
and knocked out a tooth, etc., etc. His fatherfigures he's had
16 stitches taken to his head and face so far.
TABLE TALKS
,I II ., 6c T e Aratkews.
Stuffed peppers are good any
time. If they seem expensive
now, use a half a large pepper,
for each serving instead 'of a
whole one.
STUFFED PEPPERS
6 green .peppers
1 cup ground beef (3 pound)
a/4 cup whole grain corn
1 cup corn chips, crushed
I/4 cup onion, -chopped
1 egg
3/s cup milk
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/s teaspoon pepper
Corn chips for garnishing
Remove tops and centers from
peppers. Mix beef, corn, corn
chips, onion, eggs, milk, and sea-
sonings. Fill peppers. Arrange
whole corn chips around top of
peppers. Place in pan with 1
inch of water. Bake at 350 de-
grees F. for 1 hour. Serves 6.
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STUFFED SQUASH
3 acorn squash
Salt, pepper
11/2 cups chopped cooked ham
1 cup chopped tart apples
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1/4 teaspoon monosodium
glutamate
3/ -1 teaspoon dry mustard
Cut squash in halves length-
wise; remove seeds. Sprinkle
with salt, pepper and mono-
sodium glutamate. Place pieces,
cut side down in baking pan.
Bake at 425 degrees F. for 30'
minutes. Remove from oven and
reduce • oven temperature to 375
degrees F. Turn squash halves
cut -side up. Combine remaining
ingredients for filling,' adding
mustard to taste. Fill cavities.
Bake again for about 30 minutes.
Serves 6.
Note: Chicken or sausage may
be substituted for the ham and
chopped celery for the apple, In
this case use much' less mus-
tard and use a pinch of your
favorite herb, or omit the mus-
tard entirely and use curry
powder for spicing.
In his cookbook, "Curtains Up
at Sardi's," 'written by the fa-
mous Vincent Serif and Helen
Bryson with a foreword by Vic-
tor Borge, there are almost 300
recipes of dishes regularly serv-
ed in the restaurants: Here, for
instance, is Sardi's way of pre-
paring broccoli , from the cook-
book.
BROCCOLI PARMESAN
1 bunch broccoli weighing
about 2 pounds'
2 teaspoons salt
1 quart boiling water
3 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
cheese
Trim broccoli heads, Scrape
stalks, remove -tough parts, wash
carefully and drain. Wrap heads
in brown or parchment paper
and tie with string below head,
Put into salted, rapidly boiling
water and cook covered for 15
minutes. Take out and drain
thoroughly, Melt 2 tablespoons
butter in a frying pall. Saute
cooked broccoli lightly in the
pan. Cover with Parmesan
cheese and dot with remaining
butter. Place under broiler until
light brown. Serve at once.
Serves 2,
STRING BEANS
WITH CHEESE
l4 tablespoons butter or
margarine
4 tablespoons Hour
$ cups . milk
pound Canadian cheese,
shredded
Malt and pepper
3 cups hot cooked seasoned
green beans
3 hard -cooked eggs, coarsely
chopped
rife cup chopped onion
Make cream sauce with butter,
flour, and milk. Add three-
fourths of the cheese and stir
until melted, Season. Place hot
greenbeans on a platter and
cover with the cheese sauce.
Sprinkle with chopped egg and
onion, then with remaining
shredded cheese. Place under
low broiler heat just long enough
to melt cheese, Serves 6-8.
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•PEANUT CREAM PIE
3'.tbsps. cornstarch
2 cups milk
s/4 cup sugar
3 egg yolks,slightly beaten
r/z cup peanut butter
3/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 baked pie shell
Meringue:
3 egg whites
1/4 tsp. salt
8 tbsps. sugar
Mix Ye cup of milk with corn-
starch until. smooth. Add this to
remainder of milk in, top of
double boiler. Add sugar and egg
yolks and mix well. Cook over
bailing water until mixture be-
gins to thicken. Blend in peanut
butter. Cook until smooth and
thick. Add vanilla. Allow to cool
and then spoon into, pie shell.
Beat egg whites and salt until
'frothy. Add sugar gradually,
continuing to beat until stiff
and, glossy. Pile meringue onto
pie filling being careful to seal
the meringue onto edge of crust
• to prevent shrinking.
Bake 1245 minutes at 350 de-
grees F. 'air 4 minutes 1st 425
degrees F. Cool before serving.
Serves 7-8. "Daisies", of peanut
halves and chocolate bits for
centers may be used as garnish,
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CHAMBER MUSIC — Cleveland
Orchestra's Chester • Roberts
totes his sousaphone to the tune
of the rock-and-roll of the New
York City subway. Note "Cham-
bers Sh" sign , Members of the.
dignified orchestra were en
route to an engagement in
Carnegie Hail, ahsard a special
subway train.
Ticker.Tape
Parade Technique
Willy Brandt the Mayor of
West Berlin, rode in what all the
newspapers called "the tradition-
al ticicer-tape parade," The hat-
less smiling' Mayor stood in his,
flag -decked limousine and waved
to ,the lunch-hour crowds,
Scraps of stock tape, floating
down from the skies, came as a
free gift. from Wall Street. The
ticker -tape parade has become
as much a part of America's cul-
ture as the hot dog and the
double -feature movie.
Only a select few ever ride the
"magic mile" ' from Bowling
Green to City Hall;- the parades
skirt Wall Street at its intersec-
tion with Broadway. Last sum-
mer, pianist Van Cliburn was ac-
claimed with a tick -tape recep-
tion.
The honor list for previous
ticker -tape parades includes the
Prince of Wales, Georges .
Clemenceau, Queen Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh, golf-
er Ben Hogan, Gen. Dwight D,
Eisenhower, Queen Marie of Ro-
mania, and Gertrude Bderle, the
English Channel swimmer.
The New York Stock Ex-
change, 'which supplies blank
tape for stock tickers reports:
""We get a hurry -up call for
more tape right after a big pa-
rade, Most brokerage firms throw
unprinted tape out the windows:
It's too much trouble to save up
the baskets of used tape for a
parade."
Long curling ribbons of ticker
tape give a parade much of its
festive atmosphere. For optimum
results a slight breeze should be
blowing.
The term "ticker -tape parade,"
is all-inclusive for scraps of
paper. Enthusiastic onlookers also
tear up telephone directories
(much to the dismay of the Bell
System;), old bills, office station-
ery, and even cardboard.
Veterans of the financial dis-
trict say there even is a proper
way to dispense a tight roll of
ticker tape: The spectator pushes
the spool from the, center of the
roll and holds the outer edge as
the wind catches the tape. (One
excited secretary, the Wall Street
story goes, simply held the end
of a hard tape roll and let it
drop — like a rock — to the
sidewalk three stories below,
narrowly missing a pedestrian
and causing a fresh crack in the
pavement.)
Exactly what is ticker tape?
Its prime function, of course, is
not to 'festoon parades but to
provide up -to -the -second .trans-
actions on
rans-actions.on the stock market.
"The tape itself , is three-
-quarters of an inch, wide," ex-
plains an official 'of the Stock
Exchange. "It is 35 per cent sul-
phite and 65 per cent wood pulp:
the sulphite give it strength.
"Below Chambers Street in
-lower Manhattan all stock tick-
ers use white tape, These 1,058
tickers are owned and operated
by the exchange, Above Chant-
hers Street there are 2,000 more
tickers owned 'by Western Union
and leased by the exchange;
these tickers use a canary yellow
tape,
"Nearly 'all the. tickers in this
country are located in broker-
age houses. Others are in banks
and newspaper offices. We often
have to refuse requests for the
ticicer service. We turned down
a restaurant in Philadelphia and
also a hotel in New Hampshire
which wanted to spruce up its
lobby with a stock ticker."
But even the "Big Board"
makes concessions with its stock
tickers. Two small restaurants
near the exchange buildings at
11 Wall Street are allowed tick-
ers, These are Hargus and Eber-
lin's, eating places patronized by
Stock Exchange personnel. Evan
when dallying over a ham sand-
wich and apple pie, it, seems,
the broker wants to know what
the stook market is doing, writes
V. G. Vartan in the Christian
Science Monitor.
Veteran New York photog-
raphers say they' spot a trend to-
ward less ticker tape' in the
parades. "Nowadays, we've gal
to look for ticker tape to frame
a good picture," says one camera
expert. "And, of course,. today's
parades are nothing at all like
' the Lindberg pare 1e,"
For ticker -tape' tonnage, the
frenzied welcome on Tbne 13
1927, for air hero Charles A
Lindbergh takes the prize,
"Lucky Lindy' motored up
Broadway in a blizzard of ticker
tape (the stock market was
booming merrily, too, in 1927),
He sat hatless on the hack of an
open touring car beside Mayor
James J. Walker. Four million
persons lined the streets and,
after the parade, the city appro-
priated $16,000 to reinove the
1,800 tons of ticker tape, con-
fetti, and other paper,'
Broadway saw its first ticker -
tape parade in 1919 when Ame-
rican troops returned home from
World War I. Grover Whaen,
then famed as Gotham's official
greeter, ' is credited with the
ticker tape idea.
For the Lindbergh parade, an
extravaganza before the days of
television, airplanes also drop-
ped 50,000 flower blossoms, then
spelled out in smoke the greet-
ing, "Welcome Lindbergh."
Aside from itsc parade poten-
tial, th'e ticker tape,,can serve
other uses than.' telling stock-
holders what their shares are
selling for. One couple, unable to
' find a baby sitter, took the' chil-
dren along for a visit with the
broker. While the parents talked
about stocks and bonds in 'the
Wall Street board room, the
Youngsters found'a new toy; they
played with handfuls ' of used
ticker 'tape.
No man goes before his time
—unless the boss has' left early.
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