International photographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

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Such deposits can be removed with a slightly moistened rag and discarded toothbrush. Under no circumstances use a fingernail file or knife in cleaning the film gate: you can't afford to scratch or mar any metal parts that the film comes in contact with. The optical system of your projector comes next. Make sure that the silvered reflector, located directly behind the projection bulb, is in proper alignment with the lamp, and that it is free of dust and finger-marks. You should also polish the projection bulb. If it is excessively blackened through long use or, as is sometimes the case with the higher wattage type, if the bulb has a "heat blister" on it. you will do well to discard the veteran, in favor of a newr lamp. Then proceed to the condenser lens. Carefully remove any oil. and all dust, and replace the lens. And lastly, remove the projection lens and polish it gently. Careful, now! For optical glass is relatively soft, so don't use too much "elbow grease" in this operation. Do not overlook the film aperture plate in your servicing. A soft brush, usually furnished with most projectors, will wipe away all unwanted dust and emulsion particles that have collected on the plate. Your movies will then be free from fuzzy border lines that dance and detract from the pictures on the screen. Check carefully the various controls on your machine and don't overlook the takeup reel. So often a bent flange on such reel stops the show, almost before it is under way, when the film is jammed out of alignment as it feeds on to this lower reel. Our attention is next directed to a typical set-up for a home movie show ... a show which will have all the professional aspects of your favorite theatre, vet afford your friends the enjoyment of a private screening, in the comfort of your home. Comfortable visibility for your audience is the most important factor to consider in setting up for a home movie show. Try to avoid hasty, crowded arrangements that make it necessary for a number of vour guests to sit on the floor of your living room, as they view the movies, ready as are some people to assume this informal position in spite of all you say. Such guests will only get a poor impression of vour pictures, caused by the distorted viewing angle and uncomfortable posture they are in. Another thing, don't let your friends sit too close to the screen. You can't expect compliments for your movie efforts if. in such close proximity to the moving hadows, your friends' eves are dazzled by the gyrations of the millions of particles of grain that make up the screen images. Set your screen on a level with that of the projector. Arrange chairs well back from the screen, but in as near a straight line with projector and screen as you can without interfering with the "throw of the show. Your audience will then be in best position to enjoy the movies. Provide a table for your projector which is large enough to provide room also for the projection reels which you are to present. Keep the reels in numerical order, and out of the humidor containers, so that there will be no hitch in your show. Everything necessary for your presentation should be at your finger-tips, ready for instant use, with no time out for fumbling! Incidentally, don't stop to rewind each reel after its presentation, as this practice causes too much interruption in your show. It is far better — far easier, for that matter — to leave all rewinding jobs until after your guests depart. There's difference in opinions as to how dark a room is desirable for a satisfactory showing of home movies. Manv people favor a semi-lighted room . . . often are careless in allowing extraneous light to reach the screen. However, it is the writer's feeling that a room, in which movies are being projected, should be in total darkness. While this requirement may be overlooked in the presentation of regular black and white movies, it would appear to be most important factor in showing natural color films. A great part of the gorgeous color renditions, now obtainable on amateur film, are lost unless full opportunity is given the projection lamp to bring out the colorful pictures on the screen, without undue competition from some extraneous living room light fixture! So again we say . . . keep your home theatre dark, very dark, while you're showing your pictures. Most everyone has reels of mixed pictures, some of the regular black and white spliced onto the natural color variety. Each type of film, viewed as an entirety, is satisfactory, but when immediately followed upon the screen by natural color presents an unwelcome studv in contrast. Many home movie fans will overcome this condition by tinting and/or toning their black and white films. Nevertheless, some will not care to trouble themselves with this additional processing, or for one reason or another thev will not care to impart a permanent tint to their films. But there's an easy way out, and the answer is: Use a selective color wheel in front of your projector lens; Fashioned somewhat like the gelatine color wheel used on spotlights in theatre presentations, which give the limelights their array of tinted lightbeams, the amateur cinematographer can easilv construct such an attachment, made from small bits of colored gelatine or colored glass, and position the device before the lens of his projector. Thus, supposing your natural color film has passed through the projector gate, it is only a matter of a split second to swing your color wheel into nos'tion when vour regular black and whit ■ film follows along. With this attachment you wont let your audience down! In presenting your movies, prove your self a showman. Be sure to gauge your audience well . . . give them the movies you know will click. And don't run too manv films The best test for your home movie show is that it ends with the audience asking for more! New Negative Filing System For Miniature Negatives There is always that controversial subject amongst 35mm small camera users as to the method of filing their negatives. For the "strip filers," E. Leitz, Inc., has recently introduced a new filing system. This consists basically of film "jackets" each of which holds a six negative strip The "different" feature of the filing system is the fact that the "jackets" are made of a transparent material which is relatively thick and which therefore, does not have a tendency to curl. Another novel feature of this new film "jacket" is that it is not necessary to push the strip of film in from one end in order to insert it into the "jacket." The Entire '"jacket" opens up through a "zipper-like" action. New Kalart Speed Flash The new: Kalart Compak Speed Flash works with all low priced Kodak, Agfa and other cameras fitted with pre-set automatic I self-setting I shutters. Designed expressly for the low priced midget bayonetbase flash lamps the Battery-Flector unit of this synchronizer comprises Kalart's popular Concentrating Reflector with its exclusive bulb ejector and a built-in battery holder containing two standard size batteries. The whole unit will fit in your pocket — even with a dozen bulbs! Famous Persons in "Sergeant York'" • Major General George B. Duncan, retired, who commanded Sergeant York's World War division, is the latest historical figure to give consent to his portrayal in 'Sergeant York," which Jesse L. Lasky and Hal B. Wallis are producing for Warner Bros. General Duncan is living at Lexington, Va. Other noted figures of the World War era who have granted permission for their screen appearance in the drama are Secretary of State Cordell Hull and General John J. Pershing. Howard Hawks will direct the production. for difficult shots — THE ORIGINAL Scheibe's Monotone Filter INDICATES instantly how every color and light value of a scene or object will be rendered in the finished print before taking the picture. always ready. GRADUATED FILTERS fW*,)* mi MiffcKfMc FOG SCENES, DIFFUSED FOCUS AND OTHER EFFECTS Gcorqe H. Scheibe ORIGINATOR OF EFFECT FILTERS 1927 WEST 78TM ST. LOS ANGELES. CAL. International Photographer for February, 1941 23