Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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MOVIE MAKERS 165 ACL. This additional work and close timing did not in any way detract from the club's show the following night. Everything went off splendidly before an enthusiastically receptive and capacity audience. A fine show! Cincinnati On April 20 the Cincinnati (Ohio) Movie Club, ACL, was treated to a lecture by Harris B. Tuttle, FACL, of the Eastman Kodak Company, on Making the Home Movie Story. Mr. Tuttle supplemented his lecture with films he had made especially to illustrate this subject. At the April 27 meeting members of the club heard Dr. Eileen Macfarlane lecture on India and the Far East, with her films on the little-known regions of Asia. Dr. Macfarlane is on the staff of the Institutum Divi Thomae. Stamford The Stamford (Conn.) Amateur Movie Club, recently formed by movie makers in that city, meets on the fourth Monday of each month at the local YMCA at 8:00 p.m. All interested filmers are cordially invited to attend the club's next meeting. Officers for the coming year will be George A. Valentine, president; Thomas Mubry, vicepresident; W. E. Iversen, secretary, and H. B. Price, treasurer. If you would like to know more about the club, write to Mr. Valentine, at 398 Hope Street, Glenbrook, Conn. ACL club Newest among the many clubs throughout the world holding ACL membership is the WTMJTV Amateur Cinema Club, ACL, organized by and for staff members of the Milwaukee television station. Officers of the club for the first season will be Thomas Young, president; Dale Lemonds, vice-president, and Barbara Henrichs, secretary-treasurer. Westchester The Westchester (N. Y.) Cine Club, ACL, has announced that the deadline for their first annual club contest will be October 14. There will be two classes: for novices and advanced filmers. Anyone desiring further information is asked to write to David D. Bulkley, 19 Winnetou Road, Hillside Ridge, White Plains, N. Y. Richmond visit The Richmond (Calif.) Movie Camera Club, ACL, presented a fine selection of members' films to their hosts, the Bay Empire 8mm. Movie Club, ACL, of San Francisco, last month. On the program for the evening were The Norwood Director, by Art Smith; Color Printing in Richmond, by William Gar &%9tl m «3 rard, ACL; Sunday Supplement, by Robert Buckett, ACL; Florida Tropics, by Madeline Whittlesey; Trip jor Two, by Bill Parker, and Santa's Trip, by Edna Hunting, ACL. Good mixer — on tape! [Continued from page 154] large part of the reel, erasing the pilot commentary in the process. The music is recorded at full level all the way, whether or not commentary is to lie added at a given point. THE GUIDE FORK Now we come to the only piece of special apparatus. I call this a "guide fork." You can see from Fig. 1 that it is bent up from a piece of sheet metal to hold the tape about 1/20 of an inch out of its usual alignment. The fork should be non-magnetic and brass is probably ideal. I made mine from Duraluminum; but it is so light that I have to perch a few coins on it to prevent it tipping under the pull of the tape. The fork is required only for the mixed-in commentary. I play back the music until I arrive at the mark indicating the start of a passage of commentary. Then I stop and back up about 1 second of tape. I rehearse <the commentary several times, ending with a dummy run with recorder at playback but with volume down. This is to check that the commentary finishes sufficiently close to the appropriate end mark on the tape. Then, after backing up once more to 1 second before the first mark, I slip the guide fork under the tape. Now J. switch to record and set the volume and tone controls for recording. Since the tape is not moving, this impresses little or no click on the tape. When I start the recorder, however, the original recording of music is only partly in register with the erase and R/P heads, because the tape is displaced by the guide fork. Consequently only about half the width of the music track is affected by the erase head. Notice that in distinction to method 4 above, the music track is completely erased (not weakened ) over half the width and unaffected over the other half. ADDING COMMENTARY After allowing about a second for the recorder speed to stabilize, I speak the commentary and it is recorded on the tape. However, the guide fork once more influences things. Because the tape is displaced, the commentary is not recorded on the part of the tape still carrying music. It is, however, recorded on the other half of the usual track; i.e., the part from which music has just been erased. At the end of the commentary, I gradually tip the guide fork so that the tape is removed entirely from register with COMPCO CUP No more groping for hidden slots ! No more slipping of film on the take-up! The Compco Reel, with its exclusive, patented "Compco Clip" makes threading fast and foolproof, even in the dark! 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