Swank fashion of the tripod jugglers

July 6, 2013 photog blogs

eddie_morrisonThe latest in high street fashion for the trendsetting photog way back in 1932 courtesy of the fertile mind of Fred “Red” Felbinger of Paramount Sound News.

Here is a picture of what the well dressed cameraman will wear this winter. Mannequin Eddie Morrison, the Beau Brummel of the tripod jugglers, just had his latest winter suit imported. The suit comes with two pairs of pants, but Eddie only has one pair on account it ain’t been very cold yet here this year.

There ain’t no pockets in the coat account cameramen ain’t needin ‘em this season because of the depression. The mittens are especially built to be worn in speakeasies, as they insure a better grip on a stein and also are very useful when its time to buy a drink as they is mighty unhandy in gettin change out of your pocket.

This is a big help for cameramen what is trying to save up enuf dough to buy a little woman a new coat so’s she can keep warm this winter also.

Eddie didn’t buy any winter shoes, as you can see in the pitcher he is plannin on runnin around in them white wool socks awhile, and then when he wears the bottom off of em he will use em for spats later.

The cap is soundproof and helps a lot while listenin to your noise ketcher tell you how to shoot the next scene. This is strictly the last word in cameraman’s get up. However, please excuse the equipment Eddie is posin with in the pitcher.

We had to make the pitcher in a hurry and couldn’t find a modern sound movie groan box. For the information of cameramen who might be new in the game the box Eddie is posin with in the pitcher is a rare ole relic of the days when cameras wuz cameras and before a guy needed a derrick to move em around.

It was called a Akeley and you actually had to turn a crank to get a pitcher…buttons wuzn’t heard of in them days of pitcher takin. They wuz considered the heaviest thing ever built, but that wuz before the movies started to groan — also cameramen’s backs from the weight of the sound boxes.

They wuz one-man cameras and did not need the help of a highly educated sound engineer to make a scene, but like all good things they came to an end.