Home Movies (1954)

HOLLYWOOD PRO'S NOW AVAILABLE!! EASTMAN KODAK KODACHROME DUPLICATES 8mm or 1 6mm Per Foot From Your Originols ~1 w I Mail Orders Accepted HOLLYWOOD 16mm INDUSTRIES, INC. 1453 N. Vine St. Hollywood, Calif. ON APPROVAL Most entertaining 8MM MOVIE FILMS for home movie shows. Write today and we'll SEND YOU A 50 ft. 8MM FILM — POSTPAID — ON APPROVAL. (Return the film within 5 days without obligation, if it's not worth more than the $1 .50 we ask.) BONICA NEWSREEL CLUB 6s i o selma Avenue, Hollywood 28, Colif. Distinctive TITLES and Expert EDITING For the Amateur and Professional 16-8mm Black and White Kodachrome Price List on Request STAHL EDITING & TITLING SERVICE 33 West 42nd St. New York 36, N.Y. CASH for Still Photos for Home Movies Magazine COVER PICTURES $15.00 per photo for good 8 x 10 glossies, vertical composition — for cover use. Photos must be sharp, have good contrast, and should illustrate seasonal subjects. Large heads are preferred, singles or groups in action acceptable. PHOTOS FOR EDITORIAL USE $5.00 to $10.00 depending upon interest, and quality. Pictures should show cine filming activities such as titling, editing and other phases of home movies. TECHNICAL PHOTOS Any photo illustrating a cine idea, gadget, method or new way in motion pictures is acceptable. $5.00 to $3.00 depending upon quality. Home Movies will pay upon acceptance. Contributors must include return postage and self-addressed envelope. The publishers assume no responsibility for unsolicited photos or drawings. Reply in five days. at work By JAMES RANDOLPH Home Movies Technical Director HOUDINI PARAMOUNT Studio: Paramount . Cast: Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Photography Credits: Special photographic effects: Gordon Jen* nings: Photography: Al Nozaki, A.S.C. In color by Technicolor. Running Time: 105 minutes. This picture represents a beautiful job from both the artistic direction and the photographic point of view. At the beginning of the film, the colors are vivid and bright. As the picture progresses and takes on a mysterious nature, the colors change and become more subdued. Naturally, this adds much atmosphere to the films scenes depicting the story of the great magician. Houdini. The climax of the picture is more than adequately handled. Curtis is suspended head first in a tank to do a water-torture act. and as he is performing, his appendix ruptures. His wife, knowing something is wrong, screams, and they break the glass tank. The scene is highlighted by air being pressured into the tank, which causes large white bubbles to cover the magician's face, thereby building suspense as the audience sees the expression on his face. Several shots were made from behind, showing Curtis suspended and at the same time the audience's reaction in front of him. The stars, Tony Curtis from Universal-International, and Janet Leigh from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, were borrowed by Paramount for this film, and both were photographed in Hollywood's best tradition. THE MASTER OF BALLANTRE WARNER BROS. Cast: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel. Photography Credits: Jack Cardiff. In color by Technicolor. Running Time: 90 minutes. "The Master of Ballantre" is one of the many famous stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been brought to the screen with great authenticity, since the entire picture was filmed on location at many of the famous spots that are mentioned in the story. Some of the footage contains beautiful composition and sparkling color; but in more than one sequence, where some of the scenes were shot on location and some, such as close-ups, were filmed in the studio, the scenes don't match at all. In fact, they are so noticeable that even a rank amateur would spot that something is terribly wrong. The colors are not balanced and the focus is poor. In each of the rear projection shots, a green halo is very evident. It is possible that your reviewer might have seen a print that had not been color-corrected, because Jack Cardiff has the distinction of being one of Europe's finest Technicolor cameramen. He has many beautiful films to his credit, among them "The African Queen" and "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman." THUNDER BAY UNIVERSALINTERNATIONAL Cast: James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Dan Duryea. Photography Credits: William Daniels, A.S.C. In color by Technicolor. Running Time: 102 minutes. William Daniels, A.S.C., has the distinction of having filmed UniversalInternationals first wide-screen pro duction. The story deals with the pioneering of off-shore oil wells. Daniels planned his camera angles to give • See PROS on Page 78 68