human
That would be my luck, all right,
gpt
What's the matter with the sun, now? Big Medicine boomed reprovingly.
human
Comin' in, you said you had your blizzard stuff, and now if the sun'd jest come out, by cripes, you'd be singin' songs uh thanksgivin'--er words to that effect. Honest to gran'ma, there's folks that'd kick if--
gpt
But I haven't got my blizzard stuff, Luck stated, harshly because of the effort to speak at all.
human
All that negative I took to-day is chuck full of 'static.'
gpt
Well, say, by cripes! What's statics?
human
Statics, he explained,
gpt
In other words, Big Medicine supplied glumly,
human
I can shut up and mind my own business. I get yuh, all right!
gpt
Nothing like that, Bud, Luck corrected more amiably, warmed a little by the sympathy he knew would follow close upon the heels of understanding.
human
Static is a technical word used a good deal in motion-picture photography. In this case it was caused, I think, by the difference of temperature in the metal parts of the camera and negative, and the weather outside the camera box. I've been keeping it here in the house where it's warm, and I took it out into the cold and started work--_sabe_? And the grinding of the bearings, and the action of the film on the race plate, generated static electricity in tiny flashes which lighted up the interior of the camera and light-exposed the negative, as it was passing from one magazine to another. When it's developed, these flashes show up in contrasty lights, like tiny grape vines; I can show you that part; I've got about a mile of it, more or less, there in the dark room.
gpt
Plumb spoiled, d' yuh mean?
human
Plumb spoiled. Luck threw his cigarette stub viciously into the blaze.
gpt
All that drifting herd, all that panoram of Andy and Miguel--all--everything I took to-day, with the exception of those last scenes with the cow and calf. The one where the cow is down and the snow drifting over her, and the calf huddled there by the carcass,--that's dandy. Camera and negative were cold as the outside air by that time. That one scene will stand out big; it's got an awful big punch, provided I had the stuff leading up to it, which I haven't got.
human
Hell!