Your Movie Camera and How to Use It

★★★★★ · informative and entertaining · scrounge · 2005-04-30

This is an instructional video from 1948. Charlie Wright buys a camera, so his neighbor, Joe TitleHocker has to get one too. Only Joe sucks at photography, and Charlie's know-it-allness carry us through several photography tips, most of which still apply today.

★★★★ · Don¡¯t be a schmo¡¦ Joe. · Spuzz · 2005-10-29

Very fun little upbeat film about do¡¯s and don¡¯ts when shooting film on your brand new camera. I actually liked this a lot, because it had a very down-home feel, and it presented some nice problems that the amateur cameraman could come across (eg low lens exposure, out of focus etc). I¡¯m assuming the cameraman got this film when he bought the camera, right?

★★★ · Camera Comedy · Dodsworth the Cat · 2024-08-08

Nothing like some baggy-pants comedy. Give a guy a funny walk and a funny name, and that means funny! OK, that part of it got me wincing. But the rest of the short was fine. I suspect the advice was good for cameras of that era. The smart character, Charlie, talks to the viewer, so that's a plus. The titles may not be original, but they're cute. The Teitlebaum's company, which copyrighted this short, rented film equipment, splicers and cleaners and that sort of thing. Ben Teitelbaum was convicted in 1968 of illegal gambling at the Friar's Club. I wonder if they caught that on camera.