Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

92 APRIL 1953 Add a VARIABLE SHUTTER UNIT To Your Bolex H-16 The type of shutter, standard for all professional movie cameras. • Full range from open to closed at any camera speed. • 3 convenient intermediate stops, Va open, V2 open and Vi open, enable you to expose from 1/18 sec. at true 8 f.p.s. at open to 1/560 sec. at Vi open at true 64 f.p.s. • Make complete transition lap dissolves anytime. • Fade-ins and fade-outs at your fingertips. • Neutral density filters no longer needed when filming outdoors with fast film. Audible warning sound when shutter in closed position when filming forward or hand-cranking either way. • Avail yourself of the many other advantages obtainable only with a controlled variable shutter speed. • Give your next movies that sparkling professional touch. PRICES (within U.S.) Cameras with inside frame counter... $ 99.60 With the Yolo automatic dissolve attachment (for H-16 with built in frame counter only) $57.00 extra. Cameras with outside frame counter. $109.80 Price includes camera transportation back to you, insurance coverage, and on* year guarantee. (Local and state taxes where applicable, extra) Send for free detailed informative booklet, "Variable Shutter Units for Bolex H16" TULLIO PELLEGRINI 1545 Lombard Street San Francisco 23, Calif. DISTINCTIVE EXPERT TITLES and EDITING For the Amateur and Professional 16 mm. — 8 mm. Black & White and Kodachrome Price fist on request STAHL EDITING AND TITLING SERVICE 33 West 42 St. New York 36, N. Y. MOOD ^~ MUSIC -RECORDS ■ IBWWIHVW Background Last Word in Sound Effects-^ g0uNQ Send For Free Catalogue THOMAS J. VALENTINO, Inc. Dept. MM 150 West 46th Street, New York 36, N. Y. V4CIMI4K FILM PROTECTIVE PROCESS sJperVAPORATE PROTECTS AGAINST Scratches, Fingermarks, Oil, Water and Climatic Changes ■ ONE TREATMENT LASTS THE LIFE OF THE FILM Brittle Film Rejuvenated LABORATORIES IN KEY CITIES THRUOUT U.S. Write for Information Now VACUUMATE CORP., 446 W. 43rd St., N. Y. 1952 Maxim Award winner, 21 minutes. Thus, with a total screen time of 41 minutes, it is ideally balanced for club use at dinners, birthday parties, regular meetings — or on a Gala Show program where the inclusion of local contest winners is desired. Rental rates on the Junior TTB begin as low as $10, and desirable booking dates for it are available from May onward. TTB SMART IDEA Dear ACL: Your announcement of the the Top of the Ten Best program intrigues me. This sounds like an awfully smart idea for both amateurs and the Amateur Cinema League. At your usual rates, I'd very much appreciate your sending me a print of your 1 hour and 26 minute film. I'd like to have it for a few days to show to people around here. Frank R. Knight, Jr., ACL Advertising Department Eastman Kodak Company Rochester 4, N. Y. TITLER TALK Dear Mr. Moore: Last night several men from the camera club here spent the evening in my basement using the titler I described in An All-Purpose Titler in February Movie Makers. Also, another man, driving through from Chicago, asked to see it so that he might copy it more closely. I've even had letters about it from as far away as Oregon. And yet my boy — he's 17 years old — ■ says you must have been hard up for material when you printed it! Haven Trecker, ACL Kankakee, 111. Dear Movie Makers: Thank you for including a mention of "that handsome hunk of machinery" in the All-Purpose Titler article by Haven Trecker, ACL, in your February issue. May I comment on the second important change mentioned? The author states that his design allows the lens to rest on the titling board (thus facilitating the centering operation) . On my titler a 6 inch telephoto lens or an extension tube screwed into the camera turret also allows the lens to rest on the titling board — so we achieve the same end result. William Messner, ACL Teaneck, N. J. KODAK IN MEXICO Gentlemen: Georgia Engelhard, in your February issue, has written a good and substantially correct "short story" on filming in Mexico. However, in her second-to-last paragraph she is definitely out of sync. Kodak has no Eastman Kodak Stores in Mexico! We moved from our old location at San Jeronimo No. 24 nearly four years ago. In Mexico, the Eastman Kodak Company's associate company is Kodak Mexicana, Ltd., now located at Calle Londres No. 16. We do not, at Kodak Mexicana, sell at retail; but we do maintain a service department and competent repair shop to handle any and all Kodak equipment. In the event of camera trouble, ACL members are cordially invited to call on us. F. R. Zierer Asst. Manager Kodak Mexicana, Ltd. Mexico, D. F. Our sincere gratitude to Senor Zierer for this helpful correction. The inaccurate and out-of-date information printed was supplied to Movie Makers by Eastman Kodak Stores, 1 West 39th Street, New York City, in response to our specific check with them concerning Kodak installations in Mexico City. WRONG SNAKE Dear Mr. Moore: While I doubt if anybody notices the difference, the snake pictured on page 67 of March Movie Makers in your Fine Frames layout happens to be a milk snake and not a copperhead. It will be interesting to see how many of our members will pick this up. We will find out how observing they are and how much knowledge they have of snakes. Roy C. Wilcox, ACL Meriden, Conn. Apparently the incidence of herpetologists among our members is as slight as our own knowledge of the reptilian world. The score for keen observation to date is zero. Our thanks for this kindly correction goes to nature filmer Wilcox, whose film frame we reproduced. In this column Movie Makers offers its readers a place to trade items of filming equipment or amateur film footage on varied subjects directly with other filmers. Commercially made films will not be accepted in swapping offers. Answer an offer made here directly to the filmer making it. Address your offers to: The Swap Shop, c/o Movie Makers. NEWS AND VIEWS Dear Sirs: My first request under my new ACL membership is that, through the medium of Movie M. akers, I could be placed in touch with any 16mm. enthusiast in the United States of America who would be interested in exchanging news and views with a filmer resident in Central Africa. My outfit is a Bolex H-16 and I am interested in every phase of cine work — including tape recordings. Robert S. Hobson, ACL P. O. Box 283 Ndola, Northern Rhodesia