Red Felbinger learns that tiny cameras doesn’t always equal big egos and he should check his own on occasion. Yes even then you had folks go out and buy a camera and think they were the next Darrell Barton or something.

The size difference between Dyer’s DeVry “lunchbox” camera and the Wall/Akeley/Mitchell sound newsreel camera Felbinger would have been using is roughly equivalent to the size difference between a full-sized shoulder mount ENG rig and someone using say a Sony NX30U for news gathering.

Last month when I wuz makin some shots on the New Orleans Mardi Gras I sees a guy makin a shot with a DeVry camera and finally he ankles over to me and introduces his self. Says his name is Ed Dyer.

I always talk to guys with cameras even if they only got a DeVry and me with one of them swell groan boxes. I always been democratic…watahel…so I lets this bird talk to me, only I notice he don’t shoot off his mouth about how good he is with the DeVry like I do when I meets some amateur bird.

Well, this bird wuz so nice a guy that when he invited me to come out to see his place I figgered I would honor him so’s he could say a real high-class cameraman took a interest in him. And then I gits out there! He’s got one high-class gallopin tintype studio, and all he talks is Technicolor, which he’s been shootin. Then he shows me his old silent equipment which he ain’t usin right now account the technicolor he’s shootin, Bell & Howells, Mitchells, etc., piled on top each other.

Then he runs a couple reels multiple exposure he been makin and explains how he shot em and wuz I glad it wuz dark in the screenin room because the hombre maybe coulda seen I wusn’t eggsactly keepin up on following him on how he does it.

So about the middle of Reel 2 of Ed Dyer samples I figgers well, a newsreeler like myself kin git by a while yet maybe so long his scenes is sharp. Also I figger maybe I quit bein snooty on how good I is when I meets birds I don’t know what is carrying De Vry’s. And if any youse birds git down to New Orleans look up brother Ed Dyer, 666. He has one grand layout and he’s one grand guy to spend a visit with. Motion Picture Advertising studios is where he fogs his celluloid.