Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

JOS. SCHNEIDER & CO. XENON SUPER SPEED f 2. lens for the Filmo. The only lens of this high speed where definition and covering power is not sacrificed in order to obtain speed. Exquisitely fine and brilliant detail to the extreme corners of the picture, wide open. A unique arrangement permits each lens to be readily adjusted to each individual Filmo camera and insures perfect registry. Another device permits of the focusing and diaphragm scale being turned to the point easiest seen and locked in place. Let your dealer demonstrate this lens and be convinced that it is at last possible to obtain high speed and fine detail with the same lens. XENON, 25mm., /2 lens, in adjustable focusing mount for Filmo $37.50. FREE TRIAL GLADLY GIVEN. Write for the new catalog of accessories for the Amateur Movie Maker. BURLEIGH BROOKS, Sole Agent, 136 Liberty Street, N. Y. C. /fn n n n n n" i; " ri~~ n ~"m nA RALPH R.ENO 117 PARK AVE. NEW YORK. THE PIONEER ART TITLE BUILDER AND FILM EDITOR presents^ TWO UNUSUAL FEATURES SEND $3.00 with any portrait and I will make an exact reproduction ready to splice into your family reel. Photos returned in perfect condition as received MAIL me $2.00 with copy for 3 titles (10 or less words) and I will make you 3 of the smartest ART TITLES you've ever tried, entirely HAND LETTERED. PHONE WISCONSIN 4020, EXT. 3 ENO'S ART TITLES! SHOOT NATURE with your CAMERA Let Nature Magazine be your guide to wild life and its habits. Each issue is a lesson in photography. The illustration here was taken on one of the American Nature Association's Expeditions that have brought back many photographic prizes and fascinating stories. Nature Magazine is a 70-page monthly, profusely illustrated in halftone and color. Send for a Sample Copy or CLIP THIS AD and attach three dollars for one year's membership including Nature Magazine, and send it to American Nature Ass'n 1214— 16th ST., WASHINGTON, D.C. juvenile having supper together. This last complicated dissolve is poignantly cinematic. These are all possible, for amateurs, using fadeins and fadeouts instead of dissolves and using short footage to express action. Closeups of Details : This photoplay gives us a number of examples of one of the things that the cinema can do, which the spoken drama cannot do, and which still photography cannot do without undue emphasis. Wherever the thoughts of the actors can be indicated by a shaking hand or a wavering foot, we have a closeup of very short footage. The spoken drama cannot focus attention on one part of the actor's body without ridiculous posturing. Here the cinema is supreme. FEATURING FLEAS, ANTS AND FLIES {Continued from page 23) to operate his microscopic motion picture machine costs Tolhurst $2.40 a minute at the very least! Some of the titles of Tolhurst's series will give you an idea of their unusual scope. For instance, "Our Ant Gang," "Bee Bread" and "The Fly's Eye." Regarding this last, Mr. Tolhurst has accomplished the remarkable feat of photographing. through the fly's eye, which is prismatic in character and multiplies the object seen through it perhaps thousands of times. Other titles in this singular library of films are "Grunion — the Mystery Fish," "The Fleamobile," "TickleBill, Trained Fly" (we have already told you something of the wonderful little "Bill"), "The Sea Urchin," and "Living Stars." "Living Stars," as you may guess, is the life story of the deep sea star fish. Though some of Tolhurst's films are known in the theatre, it is only recently that they have become available in the 16 mm. field. Their instant popularity is a fine tribute to. their remarkable interest value. Through this most unusual work in scientific enlightenment for the general public, Tolhurst has fulfilled Edison's purpose in inventing the motion picture machine, an enviable pinnacle, indeed, for any man to. attain ! Final Version IT seems there were two Irishmen named Ole and Sven, who had just seen the widow drop her mite in the collection box. Ole started to appropriate it. "Bedad an' bad cess, lay off," counseled Sven. "Thot mite be Lor* Chaney." — Life. Forty-eight