FIRST PRIZE FOR "LISTENER" COVER
ys photograph of a bearded old man examining a curio was taken specially for "The Listener" by G.
Perry, a well known Wellington photo&rapher, and appeared on the cover of "The Listener’ of August 30, 1940. It has just received the award of champion print in the annual interclub competition of New Zealand Photographic societies for the Bledisloe Cup. "The Curio," as it is now entitled, was taken fo illustrate the NBS production of " Meek’s Antiques,’ the famous BBC feature which was presented over the national stations by a local cast. The subject was Bernard Beeby, head of the play production department of the NBS, who does not wear whiskers normally and had to have them stuck on carefully with spirit gum, the process of making him up taking two and a halt hours. Amateur photographers may be interested to know that the photograph was taken on a Kine-Exakta (35millimetre) camera, and the film was developed in a DK 20 developer. It has been sent to Calcutta to the AllIndia Photographic Salon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 112, 15 August 1941, Page 9
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177FIRST PRIZE FOR "LISTENER" COVER New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 112, 15 August 1941, Page 9
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