Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

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308 NOVEMBER 1952 C lassif ied advertising 10 Cents a Word Minimum Charge $2 EQUIPMENT FOR SALE I BASS . . . Chicago. Cinema headquarters for 42 years offers money saving buys in guaranteed used equipment. 16mra. Victor 4 single sprocket, 1" //1.8 Cooke, 1" //2.7 B.&H. Ansix, with W.A. attach., 3" //3.5 Teletar, $157.50; 16mm. B.&H. Autoload. 1" //1.9 Lumax foe. mt., 899.50; Kodak Mod. B, 1" //1.9, 862.50; Kodak Mod. B, //3.5, $32.50; 8mm. Bolex H-8, %" //1.5 Switar, 1" //2.5 Yvar, 1%" //3.5 B.&L. Animar, all lenses foe. mt., case, $576.00 value for $365.00; 8mm. Revere 99 Turret, %" //2.8 B.&L. Animar, $57.50; Kodak Mod. 25, //2.7 lens, $32.50; 8mm. Stewart-Warner, y2" //3.5, $19.50; latest model RCA 400 sound projector, $549.00 value for $325.00. Best buys . . . best trades always. BASS CAMERA COMPANY, Dept. CC, 179 W. Madison St., Chicago 2, 111. I YOUR domestic or foreign motion picture magazines loaded with B&W or color film. Siemens magazines available. BOX 294, c/o MOVIE MAKERS. ■ AMPRO Tape Recorder, new, $89.50; Bolex L-8, //2.5 lens, zipper case, $58.50; Revere SOF projector, LN, $245.00; Weston Master Meter, $21.00; GE meter, $16.50 with case; sound films $5 up; 16 silent, $1 up; 8mm., $.90 up. Free lists. We buy your films or equipment for cash, and we trade all over the world. FRANK LANE, 5 LITTLE BLDG., BOSTON, MASS. FILMS FOR RENTAL OR SALE ■ NATURAL COLOR SLIDES, Scenic, National Parks; Cities, Animals, Flowers, etc. Sets of eight, $1.95; Sample & list, 25«!. SLIDES, Box 206, La Habra, Calif. S EDENART has all subjects. Send 25^ for complete listing and sample. State subject preferred. EDENART, Box 608, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y. B SALE OF SURPLUS 16mm. sound films, many new, some $1.95 per reel; also special Grab Bag price on packages of films, our choice of titles. Everything priced to sell out quickly. Surplus preview prints of current films available below lab cost. Write Dept. SS, Room 310, 57 E. Jackson, Chicago 4. MISCELLANEOUS ■ KODACHROME DUPLICATES: 8mm. or 16mm., 11^ per foot. Immediate service on mail orders. HOLLYWOOD 16MM. INDUSTRIES, Inc., 6060 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. ■ SOUND RECORDING at a reasonable cost. High fidelity 16 or 35. Quality guaranteed. Complete studio and laboratory services. Color printing and lacquer coating. ESCAR MOTION PICTURE SERVICE, Inc., 7315 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio. Phone: Endicott 1-2707. B 8mm. HOLLYWOOD TITLE STUDIO 16mm. Complete titling service. Color and black and white. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE MEMBERS. Send 1(# for Price List and Sample. Address: 1060 North Vista Street, Hollywood 46, Calif. Do your own developing | Continued from page 299] dium sulfite in four liters of water (or about one half pound of sodium sulfite in one gallon of water) . The fifth and last solution is an ordinary acid hardening fixing bath, such as is used as a fixer for still negative film. When you buy your fixer, be certain that it contains a hardening agent, for the purpose of this solution is simultaneously to harden the emulsion and to remove any possible grains of silver bromide which might not have been developed and which, if allowed to remain in the emulsion, might later cause deterioration of the image. ACCURATE EXPOSURE NECESSARY Just a word now about the accuracy of exposure needed for home movie processing. With the reversal process as used in home developing, no compensation can be made during development for either over or underexposure of particular scenes within a film. Therefore, take particular pains to follow exactly the exposure guide furnished with your film. If you use an exposure meter, use the meter setting recommended by the manufacturer of the film which you are using. Get all your exposures consistently "on the nose." Scenes exposed in brilliant sunlight and those shot in dense shade must all be taken at the correct / stop. With your film properly and uniformly exposed, you are already well on the road to producing successfully your own home-developed movies. So, now join in the fun, and follow these step-by-step instructions for fine quality movies. TWENTY ONE BASIC STEPS Step 1. Fill all five tanks with the solution each is labeled to contain. 60 BO — n i i 75 70 65 10 TIME OP DEVELOPMENT (MINUTES) TIME-TEMPERATURE CHART, for use in your own lob, is scaled for orrho and medium speed pans. Leave % an inch of space between the liquid surface and the top tank edges to prevent overflow. Step 2. With an accurate thermometer determine the exact temperature of your developer. Do this by suspending the thermometer deep into the solution for two or three minutes. See Fig. 9. Step 3. Using the temperature of the developer as just determined, consult the time-temperature chart as shown in Fig. 10 to find the proper developing time at this degree. For example, suppose the temperature is 72° F. From the time-temperature chart (as pictured in Fig. 10) you can see that the correct developing time at 72° F. for a normally exposed film will be 5 minutes. Step 4. Turn off all room lights and turn on a suitable safelight if one is permissible with the film you are going to develop. LOADING THE RACK Step 5. Load the plexiglass developing rack with the film. Do this easily with the aid of the loading stand as shown in Fig. 11. Since the film will stretch as it absorbs moisture during development, it must be fastened elastically to the rack to compensate for any slack in the film caused by this stretching. By punching a hole with a paper punch about 1 inch from the end of the film, a rubber band can be threaded through this hole, looped through itself, and attached to the lower mounting hook on the rack as illustrated in Fig. 12. When fastening the end of the film to the mounting hook, be sure that the emulsion or dull side of the film faces away from the round rods. Now pull the film until the rubber band becomes taut. Continue to wrap the film around the rack — keeping it tight on the rack at all times — so that one strand of film lies between each set of film separators. When you reach the other end of the film, punch a hole in it and fasten it to one of the upper mounting hooks with another rubber band. Step 6. Immerse the rack in the tank of prehardener. See Fig. 13. Agitate it a few seconds during each minute by raising and lowering the rack an inch or two in the solution. At the end of 5 minutes remove the rack from the prehardener and hold it above the tank for 1 minute to allow the excess solution to drain off the film. Step 7. Rinse for 1 minute in cool water. Step 8. Place the rack of film into the developer and set your timer for whatever length of development time you determined in S'ep 2. A timer with a pre-setting feature will be a conven A&iEtM^.