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Update to Super 16
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With

without

changing your lenses!

In Memoriam

OpTex optical conversion kits, the well-loved Zeiss 10-100 T2 and

RTH Cooke Varokinetal 9-50 T2.5 16mm

Super 16 format
16mm

-

zoom

lenses convert

perfectly to

and you can continue to use the lenses for Standard

productions! The factory-fitted units (retro-fittins service available)

convert the Zeiss to a versatile 12-120mm T2.4 and the Cooke to a

10.8-60mm T3

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two

hish quality zoom lenses with
The lenses

new

are

Jess Kizis, ASC, a leading photographer of
news and sports subjects for 43 years, died

of

impressive

an

performance in the

handy

format.

available in

heart attack

January 22. He was 91.
Pennsyl¬
vania, on May 22,1901. "Starting my film
career in the DeLuxe Laboratory at New York
in 1923," he said some years ago, "I learned
all I could about that phase of the motion pica

on

Kizis was born in Pittston,

I ture business, consisting of developing, tim¬
ing, printing and editing, to name some of its
facets. But cinematography was my goal from
Arri

and Aaton mounts

or

via

OpTex adaptors to

Cost of conversion is probably less than

hiring

a

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the start and in 1927 I became

a

newsreel

for the then Fox News, going on
to sound with the creation of Movietonews."
cameraman

Super 16

single production. So change up now to Super 16
your

Bayonet, Arri PL,

any mount.
zoom

for

a

For Fox Movietone he often used

without changing

lenses! Call for full details.

a

Wall sound-on-film newsreel

camera.

Silent

footage was shot with the more portable Bell
& Howell Eyemo. Kizis donated both of these
cameras

ZGC

to the ASC Clubhouse museum af¬

ter his retirement. In 1936 he teamed up with

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LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM SCHOOL

Comminsky
popular Sports Review series
released by Twentieth Century-Fox until 1948.

"Because I've been a sports spe¬
cialist, when such spectacles as the World
Series, Kentucky Derby or the big football
games came along I went to work on them,"
Kizis recalled late in his career. "I haven't

missed

a World Series, a Kentucky Derby or
Army-Navy game since 1927."
In 1954, when Twentieth CenturyFox was promoting their Cinemascope wide
screen films, Kizis began photographing color
short subjects in the anamorphic process. All
were produced by Movietonews, Inc., and
ranged from sports and travel subjects to
an

serious documentaries. The first

was

Punts

and Stunts. In 1955 he and Jack Painter, ASC
filmed Survival City, which won an Academy

Award

as

the best live-action short of the

Others included Air Rescue, That Oth¬
ers May Live, Clear the Deck, Water Wizards,
Carioca Carnival, A Thoroughbred is Born,
Honeymoon Paradise, Lady of the Golden
Door, Football Peewee, Gridiron Midgets,
Cuba, and Seaquarlum.
Kizis also photographed numerous
commercials for Pepsi Cola and other clients.
year.

Hollywood, Athens, Tokyo, Lagos, Rio, Tel-Aviv, Reykjavik, Sydney, Toronto,

Geneva, Hong Kong, London
are

to

-

just

some

of the centres worldwide where

our

graduates

making films.

Students from over thirty different countries come to the heart of London's West End
take our two year Diploma Course. Experienced professionals teach all aspects of film

making

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covering studio feature and location documentary productions in 16mm and

35mm.

He retired in 1970.

Teaching of scriptwriting, direction, camerawork, sound recording, editing etc. en¬
sures a high degree of professionalism. And it must do - Governments, T. V. Networks and
Educational Foundations have been sending personnel to us for training for over thirty

The veteran cinematographer
Easthampton, Long Island, New York.
He is survived by his wife, Helen, a daughter,
Ursula Sperry, and numerous grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
- GT

years.

This intensive Course, demanding hard work and commitment, produces
films each term many students working on more than one production.
There are fresh intakes in January, April and September.

over

forty

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Contact: The Administrator, London International Film School,
24 Shelton Street, London WC2H 9HP,

110

Department AC2
England. Telephone (London) 01 -836 0826

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