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MONOCHROME or
BY HOUSTON LEIGH
'Black and white film my choice for filming form and action"
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S action what you want? Are you interested primarily in -the way things move and the shapes they assume? Action is the prime ingredient of a movie. Pictorial composition gives it beauty. For these elements, black and white is the film to use.
Several advantages show up at once.
1. Black and white-monochrome-gets the action.
It takes ultra slow motion if that is what you want, with speed to spare, and none of the picture quality is lost. The same holds true whether the action is football, a horse race or a machine shop running at full tilt. There is no law against using some color footage, too. Hollywood does it.
2. Black and white film is "fast."
It picks up the image in dimly-lighted areas. Monochrome looks into shadows where color film would be stopped cold or where color would be subdued or lost.
Fog-shrouded and smoke-blotted scenes, filled mostly with shapes and shadows, or night scenes lighted only by street lamps and store windows, give monochrome opportunities to prove its worth.
Under difficult lighting conditions or when color temperature of illumination is not suitable for accurate color rendition, black and white comes through.
3. Black and white is economical.
Monochrome film costs vary according to make and speed, but even the fastest of the better-known brands retails for less than color. Bulk film offers additional economy.
Take as an illustration the matter of making a football movie Fast black and white film sees right into the shadows and records the action. When a play begins you never know exactly how it is going to end. You use a lot of film in order to get the high spots of action. With black and white you get more footage per dollar than with color.
4. Processing is speedy.
Laboratories equipped to develop black and white him are numerous. Time is often saved if you process the film yourself It isn't difficult with monochrome. The cost of equipment for handling relatively small rolls (100 feet or less) is within reason. Many serious amateurs do their own processing. It makes the job more completely their own and pride in accomplishment rises accordingly.
.5 Black and white puts emphasis on form.
No matter how fine the detail, monochrome gets it. It there is an opportunity to make the picture attractive-and every scene deserves eye appeal-attention to highlights and shadows pays off handsomely.
Textures, lighted correctly, make excellent monochrome pictures. The clear-cut silhouette, of course, is a natural. Shadow patterns provide lovely effects. ' 6. Black and white is fme for record films.
Monochrome serves you well when you give it the chance. It won't fade in long years to come. It has been zipping through projectors in our theaters for more than half a century. Take a look at the number of class A black and white movies going the rounds at the moment. Take a look, too, at the way the first-run theater patrons keep on putting down their money to enjoy them. ,
Black and white film presents a challenge, which 1, tor one, cannot resist.