Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

158 News of the industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field Koda scope Royal A new 16mm. silent home movie projector, the Kodascope Royal, has been announced by the Eastman Kodak Company. Self-encased and with fold-back 400 foot reel arms, the Royal offers as standard equipment a 750 watt lamp and a 2 inch f/1.6 Ektanon, coated projection lens. Also available for largescreen, large-hall presentations are a 1000 watt lamp and either a 3 inch //2 or 4 inch //2.5 accessory projection lens. The Royal, which will project both forward -and backward, has all of its major controls — motor switch, lamp switch, rheostat, threadlight receptacle, framing knob, elevation control and reversing switch — centrally located on the operator's side of the projector. Unique in the machine's design is a counterrotating shutter, in which the size of the shutter angle is determined by the speed at which the projector is operating: i.e., wide open at normal speed ; increasingly closed at slower-than-normal speeds. Thus the regular shutter also acts as a safety shutter against film blistering. The Kodascope Royal, complete with a 750 watt lamp and 400 foot takeup reel, will list at $245, federal tax included. AnsCO Color contest One hundred and one cash and merchandise prizes totaling $12,000 will be awarded to winners in the 1953 Ansco Color snapshot contest, which opens the 15th of this month and closes on September 30. The grand award will be a new Ford car worth nearly $2,000, while first prize in each of several subject matter classes will be a round-trip flight to Hawaii for two via United Air Lines, plus $100 in expense money. Entry blanks, containing complete contest regulations and prize data, are available at your photo dealer's and other outlets of Ansco Color film. Carter converters Any user of electronic equipment who has been hampered by a basic DC power outlet will welcome the announcement by the Carter Motor Company of its new line of Custom rotary converters. The Custom line takes up where Carter's earlier Super models left off (at a maximum of 250 watts) , to supply models with 300, 400 and 500 watt capacity KODASCOPE ROYAL, new 16mm. silent projector from Eastman Kodak, features lifetime lubrication and adjustable shutter. $245 fti. at the AC output. Further, the varying models operate from battery power as well as line voltage through a DC range of 12, 24, 28, 32, 64, 115 or 230 volts, thus making possible recording work in the field as well as the home studio. For an illustrated circular itemizing all technical specifications of these Custom converters, send your request to Department 14, Carter Motor Company, 2640 N. Maplewood Avenue, Chicago 47, 111. Rebirth at Rochester Kodak Movie News, an attractive bulletin of six pages 9 by 6 inches in size, is now being published from time to time by the Eastman Kodak Company in the interests of amateur movie makers. Although the issue dated May, 1953, carries the designation "Volume 1, Number 1," it will remind many of the earlier Cine-Kodak News which this company published from 1924 to 1942 and again briefly in 1946 and 1947. If you are not on the complimentary mailing list, address a request to Frank R. Knight jr., ACL, Kodak Movie News, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester 4, N. Y. RCA Arc 400 A new, portable 16mm. optical sound projector — using arc lighting which will provide two to four times the illumination generally delivered from a standard 1000 watt lamp — is now available through the Engineering Products Department, RCA Victor Division, Camden, N. J. The equipment is comprised of five easily assembled units: the arc lamp and housing, a 25 watt amplifier, a standard RCA 400 film transport mechanism, a small rectifier and a loudspeaker. The arc lamp operates at either 10 or 30 amperes, delivering at these two levels 750 and 1600 lumens, respectively. The amplifier has separate volume controls for the optical track output, the microphone input and the record player in JUNE 1953 put. And a full-range tone control, of the type used in RCA Senior projectors, is provided. This new RCA arc equipment is expected to find use in business and industry, as well as in school, college, church, hotel and other public auditoriums. New B&H booklet Latest in the lengthening line of Bell & Howell "Tips" booklets is Tips on Home Movies Right from the Start, a 24 page, fully illustrated brochure designed for the beginner. Among the many bits of apposite advice offered are Try a Dry Run, Keep Things on the Level, Learn to See the Light and The Hand That Rocks the Camera Hurts the Eyes. The booklet, sized to fit in your camera case, is yours for five cents at your favorite B&H dealer shop. Once over lightly Reeves Soundcraft Corporation, pioneers in providing magnetic striping on 8mm. and 16mm. films, have reduced the price of their Magna-Stripe service from 3% to 2% cents per foot. Ansco is now supplying Series IV filters for use with Ansco Color film in the following varieties: Conversion Nos. 10 and 11, UV-15 and UV-16. These filters round out the Ansco Color line for all still and cine cameras from Series IV through Series VIII. Booklet month This clearly is publishing month among the purveyors of amateur movie making products. Besides the brochures from EK. and B&H cited elsewhere on this page, our readers may receive literature on request from the following: Radiant Manufacturing Corp., 2627 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago 8: A 16 page catalog of helpful hints on how to choose and use a projection screen. Clingtite Products, Inc., 4844 S. Ashland Avenue, Chicago 9: A 6 page book RCA VICTOR now adds arc illumination behind the well-known film movement mechanism of the "400" 16mm. optical sound projector.