This color, educational film, Let’s Take Pictures, narrated by Burt Conway and produced by Kameny Associates of New York, was probably created for the Ricoh Company, Ltd. between 1957 and 1960. It explains how to use Ricoh cameras and their attachments properly.
Intro (0:07-0:30). American students coming out of school dressed in late 1950’s clothing (0:31-1:13). A young man is looking at his Camera; he is doing an assignment for Camera Club (1:14-1:24). Picture of a Ricoh 500 35 mm camera box, which began being sold in the U.S. market in 1957 (1:26-1:27). Picture of a Ricoh 500 Instruction booklet (1:28-1:31). Ricoh Camera being handled by the young man (1:32-1:36). Illustration of how the camera works compared to a human eye (1:37-2:11). Young man leaves his suburban home and heads out with his camera (2:12-2:24). He takes action shots of a relay race at a track meet (2:31-3:22). Another young man has a Ricoh Twin Lens Reflex camera (3:23-3:30). Scenes of track competitions (3:31-3:42). Young men learn about focusing their camera (3:43-4:28). Track meet Low Jump (4:03-4:06). Track meet High Jump (4:16-4:20). Close up of Ricoh Twin Flex camera (4:21-4:27). Learning to use the Ricoh 500 with flash attachment at home (4:34-5:05). A visit to International Airport gets a view of The Flying Dutchman, a name taken by the KLM Royal Dutch Airlines for their planes, landing and unloading passengers at the airport (5:27-6:06). A picture of KLM Flight attendants in uniform (6:14-6:30). Plane departing (6:45-6:49). Dan Wynn, an American editorial, portrait, and advertising photographer and firm director, showing how to use a camera with posing models (6:54-8:05). Using a rotary phone (8:06-8:19). Famous saying at the United Nations building (9:06-9:19). Picture of the street sign: E. 43 United Nations Plaza (9:26-9:29). United Nations building (9:32-9:47). Ricoh 500 self timer attachment ((10:00-10:06). A red and white, 1955 Chevrolet in background (10:33-10:41). Golden Ricoh 16 subminiature camera (10:48-11:05). Ricoh Color Back Camera (11:06-11:20). An explanation of Parallax by using a chart (11:29-11:54). Group of young people looking over the photos they have taken (12:11-12:55)
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