{"id":2670,"date":"2014-02-14T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:57","slug":"97-hank-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/97-hank-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"#97 The “Hank Henry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are terms which get bandied about in the film and television industry.\u00a0 Some are widely known\u2026 some are inside gags, known but to a few.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_7625\"<\/a>
Shooting a Tailwheeler’s Journal video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When a director of a film tells the crew that this shot will be \u201cM.O.S\u201d, the soundman doesn\u2019t bother to roll the recorder.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the Director said it will be \u201cM.O.S.\u201d, which stands for \u201cmit out sound\u201d.\u00a0 That phrase was coined by a famous old time German Director and his thick accent when HE pronounced it, has been preserved by generations of filmmakers.<\/p>\n

The practice of placing still pictures on an easel and then panning, tilting and zooming the camera on the pictures, thereby giving them motion and interest is often referred to as a \u201cKen Burns\u201d.\u00a0 That\u2019s because the iconic producer of PBS historical documentaries uses the technique a lot.\u00a0 But he certainly didn\u2019t invent it.\u00a0 Still, his name works well and is descriptive of the technique.<\/p>\n

When television stations still used film, each station would have its own film processing machine.\u00a0 A reporter and cameraman would go out on a story equipped with an Auricon camera.\u00a0 The Auricon and its contemporaries were loaded with a special news gathering film.\u00a0 The 16mm film contained sprocket holes on only one side.\u00a0 The other side was coated with a magnetic stripe.\u00a0 That stripe was just like magnetic recording tape and a microphone could be plugged into the camera.\u00a0 Its audio would then be recorded on that stripe as the film was rolling inside the camera.\u00a0 After processing, the sound was right there, permanently in sync with the picture.\u00a0 Sometimes, the reporter would have to shoot the \u201cstandup\u201d by himself. \u00a0The “standup” was nothing more than the reporter standing in front of the camera and doing the introduction or wrap-up of the story.\u00a0 He\u2019d hold the microphone and his audio would be recorded on the film.<\/p>\n

\"Hank<\/a>
Hank Henry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first moved to Oregon, there was a reporter named Hank Henry who had worked there for years.\u00a0 Hank was already in his forties or fifties when I got there.\u00a0 He was a yeoman reporter.\u00a0 Destined never to rise further than local news in a medium-sized market like Medford, Hank knew every job in the television station.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s why he was perfectly comfortable going out on a story all by himself.\u00a0 I witnessed Hank doing a story out in Eagle Point, Oregon one day.\u00a0 He had set the camera up on the sidewalk.\u00a0 He fiddled with the machine and, once happy with the composition he flipped on the switch to turn on the camera.\u00a0 I watched curiously.\u00a0 \u201cWhat was the subject?\u201d I wondered.\u00a0 My question was answered.\u00a0 With only three minutes of film on a roll, Hank quickly grabbed the microphone, scampered around to a position in front of the camera and did the standup, speaking into the microphone with his gaze focused on that glass eye of the camera\u2019s lens.\u00a0 He probably did it in one take, so accomplished was he at that technique.<\/p>\n

\"Bert<\/a>
The namesake of “The Bert Garrison”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was impressed with ol\u2019 Hank\u2019s performance. \u00a0I never forgot it.\u00a0 And then, just a couple of years ago, I was shooting the introduction for the \u00a0\u201cDawn Flight\u201d DVD, which we sell on the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal.\u00a0 I was all by myself in the big hangar at Prineville. I needed to shoot an intro standup but there was no one to run the camera.\u00a0 \u00a0I remembered Hank.\u00a0 I simply set the camera up on a tripod, got the lights and background arranged, turned on the camera and scampered around to shoot the scene.\u00a0 It was my first \u201cHank Henry\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 The video \u201cselfy\u201d now had a name.<\/p>\n

I get a kick out of these terms.\u00a0 Perhaps a time lapse scene of a couple of guys shooting a production for the Tailwheeler\u2019s Journal will become known as a \u201cBert Garrison<\/a>\u201d.\u00a0 It\u2019s kinda fun watching language develop!<\/p>\n

Happy Swooping!<\/p>\n

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“When a director of a film tells the crew that this shot will be \u201cM.O.S\u201d, the soundman doesn\u2019t bother to roll the recorder. Why? Because the Director said it will be \u201cM.O.S.\u201d, which stands for \u201cmit out sound\u201d. That phrase was coined by a famous old time German Director and his thick accent when HE pronounced it, has been preserved by generations of filmmakers.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}