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Pictures of Railway Shops and Saw Mill to Be Taken This Afternoon for the Chamber of Commerce. Arrangements are completed yesterday for the filming of Albu querque from the air, the picture to be deed by the Chamber of Com mercs intae next Albuquerque booklet. It was expected that the pictures would be taken Monday, but several secessary appliances did not arrive until yesterday. The picture is to be taken by Tommie Thompson, aviator, who is attending the State university, and J. J. Waterhouse, who was an aerial photographer during the war. The picture, when complet ed, is to show the entire city from an altitude of 700 feet. Many of the important buildings will be brought to the foreground and en larged. This work will be done by artista of the Santa Fe railway who will retouch the films and fit in the enlarged buildings. This type of proture has only been made a few times in America for commer cial purposes. New York, Boston and New Orleans have been 80 filmed. The aviators will take the rail way shops and the saw mill this afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock. On Saturday afternoon, they will start at Old Town and fly slowly to the university, picking a course direct ly over Central avenue. Pictures will be taken every six seconds.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1922
Page 5
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