Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

86 MARCH 1952 TRANSPARENT is the word and name for this new 400 foot 16mm. reel can produced by the Eastman Kodak Co. from polystyrene. Can and reel: $1.60. Transparent can only: $.90. Company and is now available at your photo dealer for $1. Covered completely in the new edition are the nineteen 35mm. and 16mm. negative, positive and other films furnished by EK for professional motion picture use. In the color field the emulsions covered include Kodachrome Commercial. Eastman Color Negative and Print films, but not the standard Kodachrome stocks for amateur use: i.e., Daylight and Type A. These are covered with equal thoroughness in the data book, Kodachrome and Kodacolor Films, at 35 cents. " Spring is here!" [Continued from page 84] 39. Medium shot of Dick as he walks toward his house. 40. Medium shot of Dick in his kitchen. He walks to the door of the refrigerator and opens it. 41. Semi-closeup of Dick standing by open refrigerator door. He pulls ice trays from the refrigerator. 42. Semi-closeup of Dick at sink using ice crusher on ice cubes. Finally he has a well filled pan of crushed ice. Fade out. 43. Fade in. (Underexpose and use cross lighting on next two scenes to produce a nighttime effect. If using Kodachrome, use Type A without a filter.) Medium shot of Dick's garden and fence. Dick stealthily enters camera range carrying a pan of crushed ice. 44. Semi-closeup of Dick standing by fence and scattering crushed ice over the fence on Jim's garden. Fade out. 45. Fade in. Medium shot, bright sunny day, same setting as 43. Dick walks jauntily into camera range and goes to fence. Camera angles past him over fence to catch head and shoulders of Jim who is at work in his garden. 46. Semi-closeup of Dick's face with a smug grin. 47. Camera moves to Jim's side of fence for a medium shot of Dick leaning over fence and Jim working in garden. 48. Near shot of 47. Jim rises, holds up for Dick to see a large ripe tomato he apparently has just picked. 49. Semi-closeup of Dick, with a surprised look. 50. Medium shot from Dick's side of fence. Dick and Jim are arguing. Finally Dick seems to win the argument and Jim heaves Dick's garden tools over to Dick's side of the fence. (Switch to 8 frames per second and compensate lens opening accordingly.) Dick picks up hoe and energetically goes to work in his garden patch. Fade out. The End. Stereo strides onward [Continued from page 77] With the unit in place, stereo movies are made as simply and easily as the older, flat kind. In fact, the only difference is the need to increase normal exposure by approximately 2/3 of a lens stop, just as if you were using a filter. Other than this, nothing is changed in normal shooting procedures. When the films are returned from the laboratory, you will find that each horizontal frame now contains two vertical images side by side. In order to project these so that everyone can view the scene in true depth, the projector converter is interposed between the projection lens and the screen. The projection unit is mounted on its own base and is simply placed on the table at a distance of about 1 foot in front of the projection lens. The exact position is not especially critical. The purpose of this unit is to polarize selectively the light for the right and left hand images and at the same time to overlap these two images in proper registration. There are only two adjustments necessary to accomplish this; and, indeed, these need to be made only the first time the unit is used with your particular projector. Thereafter, unless the adjustments are disturbed, the unit can be removed and replaced for succeeding showings with little or no change. A unique feature of the Nord system is a test film which, supplied with the kit, makes the initial projector adjustment completely foolproof. This film contains a circle and a cross photographed thereon, and all that is necessary is to superimpose these images on each other. Nor can this film be placed in the projector incorrectly. For correct adjustment will be obtained whether the film is run through the machine right side up or upside down and whether the emulsion faces the screen or the lens. Once these simple projector adjustments have been made, films shot through the Nord 3-D camera converter will project with perfect stereo depth and, if we may judge by our several hundred test screenings, a unique and powerful visual-sensory impact. They must be viewed, of course, through the customary Polaroid glasses (which are supplied with the kit) , and a special type of screen with a metallic surface is required. The usual beaded screen will not work. There are, as well, two other changes in standard projection procedures which should be mentioned. First of all, due to the fact that this system utilizes a split 16mm. frame for recording the stereo pair, a new and different screen shape results. Perhaps the most accurate description is to call this the "window" shape, since that is the way it actually appears. The surface of the screen disappears completely and in its place we seem to see a window through which the original scene is viewed in lifelike realism. The various planes of the original subject stand out from each other as they do in life. The window through which this scene is viewed is vertical in shape similar to those in real life. The other limitation is that the screen which is supplied with the kit must be carefully set up at exactly the right distance from the projector. This is because there are actually two ghost images which appear on either side of the stereo pictures. These may be eliminated simply by causing them to fall on the black border at the sides of the screen; but unless this is done accurately, these ghost images prove quite disturbing and can seriously detract from the pleasure of viewing threedimensional movies. While images with the full depth and perspective of nature may not be the answer in every type of filming, it is clear that stereoscopy is going to offer many new possibilities when applied to motion pictures. At the present time the potentials are largely unexplored. It will be interesting to discover how these possibilities are applied by the imaginative movie maker of the future. Make ready for magnetic [Continued from page 73] THE SINGLE-PERFORATED FILM SUPPLY Generally speaking, the situation as to supplies of single-perforated 16mm. roll films is excellent. And, as the demand for these film stocks increases, their immediate retail availability will naturally keep pace. In response to specific queries by Movie Makers, leading film manufacturers have supplied the following pertinent data: Ansco: Although Ansco does not now offer any of its amateur-length 16mm. emulsions on single-perforated base, 100 foot single-perf rolls can be obtained on special order. Ansco does not currently offer a magnetic striping service to be applied to its films following processing, and it