Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2025 September 12 • Friday

Apparently people were not screwing around when it came to making home movies in the 1950s. Is there anything today like Peter Gowland's How To Take Better Home Movies (1956)?

Pretty much everything is covered, even underwater photography and on-screen titles.

And just as the cover promises, some real Hollywood heavyweights chime in.

That's a very thoughtful reponse from James Wong Howe, one of the greatest cinematographers of all time!

Hitchcock is less helpful, which isn't particularly surprising.

But this magazine/book has lots of good advice and guidelines and most of it probably translates pretty well to the capabilities of your cell phone. Maybe we'll try some!