Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

MOVIE MAKERS 117 News of the Industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field Film Care A fifteen minute, 16mm. monochrome sound film and a 16 page illustrated manual on the maintenance and repair of 16mm. sound films have been released by the Public Education Department of Aetna Life Affiliated Companies, Hartford, Conn. A copy of the manual is available on request; prints of the film will be sold at cost. Amateur movie clubs interested in screening the picture — called It's Up To You — may book it on free loan from the ACL Club Film Library. Reekhest-Pak Holding six 8mm. or 16mm. reels and cans, the Reelchest-Pak is now offered free by the Compco Corporation with the purchase of the six units. The cardboard container carries an index form for itemizing the films it houses. Lighting bar The Extendolite, a four-lamp unit that folds to 14 inches for easy storage, is the latest addition by the Mayfair Manufacturing Company to its line of portable lighting devices. Feature of the unit is a rotary dimmer switch which creates three illumination levels from dim to bright. Extendolite, priced at $12.95, will operate on AC only. Pan Cinor Providing a variable focal length of from 20 to 60mm., the Berthiot f/2.8 Pan Cinor lens is now available in the United States for C mount 16mm. cameras. Coupled with the lens is a variable field finder which offers parallax correction from 5 feet to infinity, the lens's focusing range. Length of the Pan Cinor at wide angle focus is i1/^ inches, 4% inches at telephoto focus; a detachable sunshade THE PAN CINOR, a zoom lens made by Berthiot, in France, offers an f/2.8 aperture and focal lengths varying from 20 to 60mm. $447.50. THE JONES TWINS, news cameramen for NBC-TV in Korea, check flight plans with B-25 bomber pilot. Frames, blown up from their Filmo-70 movies, illustrate their book called "The Face of War." adds another 1^4 inches to its operating length. The entire unit weighs in at 2 pounds. Imported from France by Paillard Products, Inc., the Pan Cinor lists at $447.50. Films in Canada A Directory of Sources of Free Sponsored Films in Canada is yours for the asking from Crawley Films, Ltd., 19 Fairmount Avenue, Ottawa. The booklet, first compilation of its kind in the Dominion, lists over 5000 16mm. film subjects (most of them with sound) offered by 185 Canadian organizations. Distribution of the films is limited to Canada. E.K. booklet Latest among Kodak's authoritative data booklets is Let's Take Kodacolor Pictures, aimed at the roll-film colorist. Lavishly illustrated with diagrams, sketches and 24 full-color pictures, the 32 page booklet is yours for 35 cents at your photo dealer's. Biblio on stereo The Stereo So ciety of America has completed a bibliography of articles, books, monographs and other papers published during the past century on various aspects of stereoscopy. Copies of this reference work are available at $1.50 each from the librarian of the Stereo Society, 274 Pearl Street, New York 38, N. Y. Appointments Harold C. Harsh has been promoted to production manager of Ansco. at Binghamton, N. Y. . . . Warren D. Starrett is the new assistant manager for sales at Kodak's New York branch. . . . Harry Pollay has been named sales specialist by Radiant Manufacturing Corporation, Chicago. Color film short There will be a pronounced shortage of all Kodak color film stocks in Europe this summer, the Eastman Kodak Company warns prospective travelers. Kodachrome — for 8mm. and 16mm. cine cameras, K-135 and K-828 still cameras — will be in markedly short supply, while Kodacolor roll film will be wholly unavailable. E. K. attributes the shortage to European import restrictions. Peerless restores H°Pe and help for badly shrunken film footage is claimed for PeerRenu, a film restoring service recently developed by Peerless Film Processing Corporation. A leaflet on the process is yours on request to the company at 165 West 46th Street, New York 36, N. Y. E.K. items Designed for use indoors under 3200° K flood lamps, Kodak Ektachrome roll film, Type B, is now available at $1.79 per roll . . . Kodak Wratten Filters for Scientific and Technical Use, a 78 page booklet whose title aptly describes its contents, is at your Kodak dealer's for 75 cents . . . Charles F. Hutchinson, controller of film and plate emulsions for E.K. in the United States and Canada, has retired after 52 years of service. Lite-Weight Victor Newest in the Lite Weight series of optical sound projectors featured by Victor Animatograph Corporation is the Model 60-4, priced at $395 with a 9 inch built-in speaker. With a 12 inch separately-cased speaker, the unit lists at $417. Incorporating all of the Victor timetested features, the 60-4 can be operated at sound or silent speeds, projects in -<! ' «***? V r ■ -' mr •A SIEMENS SPLICER, imported from Germany by Ercona Camera Corp., is all-aluminum and offers a new type of dry scraper. Price $14.95.