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CARRY-ALL • Continued from Page 59 These can be had at abount $2.00 at most dime stores and although they are only covered with paper — they are made solidly of wood. My first step was to varnish the outside to make it waterproof when being carried in the rain and also to make it look a little better. Two wooden partitions were nailed and glued in and then covered with some grey leatherette. As can be seen in Fig. 4 these partitions just give enough room to hold three 500-watt reflector floods. The two on the right are the newer ones, older ones go in the left compartment and used for not so critical applications such as a fill in light for the background. The rear compartment was intended to house the light fixture and cord. Inside the lid accessories are mounted such as a camera "Inverter" to turn the camera upside down for trick shots and various adaptors commercially available. This small compartment forced me to construct a small and light weight fixture yet compact enough to do the job. Fig. 1 shows the lightbar in use; Fig. 2 gives us a closer look, and Fig. 3 shows the unit folded ready to be stored away. Details of this simple unit are seen in the diagrams. There are four pieces of aluminum which your nearest aluminum dealer or warehouse will supply to you already cut. Center piece is 12 x 1 x 3/16 inch, camera base (in my case) 31/4 x 2 x 3/16 and the two folding arms are made of right angle stock measuring 1 x 1 x l/g inch, each piece about 5% to 6 inches long. The two pivoting screws used are chrome plated, 14 inch, held by washers and plated wing nuts. The two holes in the camera base are both taped to take 14 inch screws; the front hole serves to take the tripod screw ,then the other hole is used for mounting the camera. This plate must be flush-riveted to the center piece of the fixture as seen in the diagram. The two folding arms are drilled about one inch from the end. Holes should be of % inch diameter or .-lightly bigger to take standard swivels. Swivels are held in place by short nipples and mounting nuts; they in turn are fastened to the two sockets by short nipples, too. Sockets are standard push-switch type, chrome plated. The sockets are wired with about one foot cord and plug. These plugs are then connected to your 15 or 20 foot extension cord. This unit gives you all that is required for indoor movie-illumination and of course if you prefer to use more • See Next Page PROS • Continued from Page 78 the viewer can see an inconspicuous sign reading. "Fort Clark, Texas." One of the smartest set-ups in the film was for the very rugged fight hetwen Palance and Heston. Their fight started at the top of a stony hill. As the fight progressed, the two gradually but brutally fought down the hill. The camera dollied down the hill, permitting the terrific fight to be taken in one complete take. This adds a great deal of punch and realism to the fight climax, since all the fight action is continuous. EDIT • Continued from Page 72 plans call for them, but this can be remedied by making chemical or dye fades after the film has been fully edited. The scenes to receive this treatment may be cut apart, given the fade treatment, and respliced. Or, where the story calls for one scene to fadeout and the next one to fadein, the film need merely be looped and inserted in the container of fading dye to produce two fades at one operation. The opening title should begin with a fade — in fact where a series of titles precede the picture, they should be linked together in lap-disolves or double fades. The opening or introductory scene should certainly begin with a fade-in, and if it was not filmed with this effect, it may be given the dye treatment as already described. 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