Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

52 FEBRUARY 1953 Classified advertising 10 Cents a Word Minimum Charge $2 ■ Words in capitals, except first word and name, 5 cents extra. ■ Cash required with order. The closing date for the receipt of copy is the tenth of the month preceding issue. EQUIPMENT FOR SALE ■ BASS . . . Chicago. Cinema headquarters for 43 years offers money saving buys in guaranteed used equipment. 16mm. Zoomar complete, "C" mt. and Cine Special with close-up attach. List $1650.00; price $750.00. Pan Cinor 20mm. to 60mm. for Bolex or adaptable to B&H 70DA, list $447.50; price $325.00. Cine Special I, single sprocket, 1" f/1.9, 15mm. //2.7 W.A., $395.00. B&H 70DA, 1" //1.5 Wollensak, 15mm. //2.7 E.K. w. a., 3" //4 B&H Telate Comb, case, $247.50. Bolex H-16, 1" //1.4 Biotar, 2" f/3.5 Cooke, 3"//2.5 Wollensak, $325.00. 8mm. Revere 99 Turret, //2.8 B&L lens, $52.50. BASS SPECIAL: Brand new Revere Mod. 55, case, list $73.50; net, $52.50. Beat buys . . . Best trades always. BASS CAMERA CO., Dept. CC, 179 W. Madison St., Chicago 2, 111. ■ SHOOT YOUR OWN perfectly centered titles with any movie camera by using Bull's Eye Camera Centering System. Complete kit, $2.95 postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed. BULL'S EYE PHOTO PRODUCTS, Box 8174 Plaza Station, Kansas City, Missouri. EQUIPMENT WANTED ■ MOVIE FILMS; MOVIE EQUIPMENT; bought for cash; sold, or exchanged. Prompt replies. FRANK LANE, 5 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. (Free lists.) FILMS WANTED H I AM interested in color scenes of men and women at work at various occupations. Also animais and nature. Write describing what you have. Will furnish references before you submit material. BOX 295, c/o MOVIE MAKERS. 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. ■ 1953 ROSE PARADE movies. Kodachrome. Colorful floats. Beautiful girls. 200 ft. 16mm., $34.95. 100 ft. 8mm., $17.50. Calif, add tax. C.O.D.'s accepted. AVALON DAGGETT, 441 No. Orange Dr., Los Angeles 36, Calif. H SPECTACULAR 16mm. color sequences made by daring explorer. Brown bear closeups, shipwreck, sealions, caribou. Alaska, Mexico, Europe and the Alps. Write to NEIL DOUGLAS, Box 664, Meriden, Conn. ■ ROSE PARADE 1953 PASADENA. 8mm. Kodachrome 150' complete, S12.50; 50' short version, $4.85, first quality prints, satisfaction guaranteed. Others, original color subjects too, list and sample, 25*. HOLLYWOOD COLOR EIGHT, Box 16335, Hollywood 38, Calif. MISCELLANEOUS ■ KODACHROME DUPLICATES: 8mm. or 16mm., 11* per foot. Immediate service on mail orders. HOLLYWOOD 16MM. INDUSTRIES, Inc., 6060 Hoilywood 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. ■ 8mm. HOLLYWOOD TITLE STUDIO 16mm. Complete titling service. Color and black and white. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE MEMBERS. Send 10* for Price List and Sample. Address: 1060 North Vista Street, Hollywood 46, Calif. ■ COLORSLIDES — Exclusive interiors of historic homes, buildings, museums, caves. Free list. KELLER COLOR, Clifton, N. J. When writing to a MOVIE MAKERS box number, please address mail to: BOX c/o MOVIE MAKERS 420 Lexington Avenue New York 17, N. Y. FIG. 3: With guide card completed and pinned down, camera is centered for all sized cards. will slide freely on the rods. The base plate (3) can be screwed to the wooden base (1) with wood screws or machine screws and nuts. The brace (4) assures positive line-up and steadiness . . . and, almost before you know it, your titler is complete. CENTERING IS SURE The first step in solving the centering problem is to mount your camera on the titler carriage with only the standard (1 inch for 16mm.) lens in place. Now slide the camera down the guide rods until the face of this lens rests firmly against the wooden titler floor. With a sharp black pencil, trace accurately on the wood the circular shape of the lens barrel — and then slide the camera up out of the way. Now, with a steel square, draw crossed lines through the pencilled lens circle, being sure to extend them all of the way to the edge of the wooden floor at the top and two sides. Step two is to secure a sheet of white drawing board (13% by 18 inches, in my case) and to draw diagonal lines on it from corner to corner. Then, with your carpenter's square, draw horizontal and vertical lines through the inter FIG. 4: Small title cards, such as typewriter size, may be filmed with suitable diopter lens. section of the diagonals. Now align this card with the lines already drawn on the titler floor and thumbtack it down to the wood beneath. The result will be exactly as seen in Fig. 1. You can, if you like, re-position the camera at the floor level (this time resting against the card) and inscribe a circle around the lens — but it is not wholly necessary. With your crosslines in place on the card, clip out with critical accuracy a rectangle 2x/4 by 3% inches in size. Position this centrally on the test card, being sure that the corners of the recttangle are exactly aligned with the diagonal lines (see Fig. 2) ; then draw its outline carefully onto the test card. With this as a guide, now draw in by rule a series of expanding rectangles which are each 1 inch larger (% inch on each side), until you have inscribed a total of nine. THE EXTREMES OF COVERAGE These will serve as guide lines for the positioning of almost any size card up to 11 by 15 inches, which is the field covered by the camera at the full 42 inch extent of the guide rods. At the other extreme, we might cite the 2% by 3^4 inch field covered by your standard lens when it is positioned 8 inches from the card and used in combination with a 5-diopter accessory lens. (Set the standard lens at infinity, if it is in a focusing mount.) This 8 inch position also is ideal for closeups of insects, flowers and the like. The areas covered in between these extremes, the camera distance settings, and the diopter lens to use (if any is needed) are all itemized in tables commonly available. I shall not repeat them here. But if you are looking for an.easyto-make, easy-to-use titler, I believe you will find that this one fills the bill. I'm no machinist myself, so that I had the parts prepared and weld-assembled by a professional. The total cost — $25. But, oh, the pleasure it has given me. Zoom titles? Sure! Animated titles? Easy! Horizontal and vertical? Of course! And good centering? You bet your boots! Incident light meters indoors: 2 [Continued from page 40] many factors in mind. He has heard that flat lighting is best for color. Okay, we can easily create a lighting contrast ratio of 1 to 1 for almost shadowless color filming. But he knows that sameness in lighting throughout a film is undistinguished. And so the chances are he will want to create patterns of light and shade which will match the mood of each sequence being filmed. It is here that he indulges his artistic tastes to the limit. Suppose the cameraman decides that