Movie Makers (Jun-Dec 1928)

MOVIE MAKERS If an old stereopticon machine is available it is an excellent means of flooding the screen with light which may be colored by gelatine slides. Where two projectors are available, one may be run with the film. The other, running without film and projecting merely a colored light, acts as a "toner," giving many beautiful color results. If neither a stereopticon machine nor a second projector are available, place an electric light bulb inside a box wherein a small hole has been bored. This acts as a small projector and can be made to flood a light through the hole (which is covered with a colored gelatine) onto the screen. A little experimenting along this line will reveal not only its simplicity but also its many possibilities. Now let me go one step farther and suggest a tinted and toned effect combined. That is, the use of one color tint produced by a gelatine filter in the path of the projected image and of an independent color tone produced from an outside floodlight source. Obviously both colors must never be the same. Let it suffice to merely make mention of these color experiments. Your own experiences with them will convince you of the limitless range of combinations which may be obtained. Finally, for the ingenious amateur who likes to experiment with weird effects, if a small mirror is placed directly in front of the projector at an angle of 45 degrees to the projection axis, the beam will be bent 90 degrees from the normal and will travel straight up. Another mirror directly above the first and parallel to it will bend the light rays back to their original direction. Now if a glass dish is inserted between the two mirrors as in the accompanying diagram, the image must travel through the glass bottom of the dish. Next place a small amount of water in the dish and allow drops of various colored oil paint, well thinned with turpentine, to slowly spread over its surface. Care should be taken to avoid ripples on the surface of the liquid as each undulation produces a distortion of the image. Very little skill is required to produce by this method some weird color behaviors, as the pigments of the oil paints blend themselves into a myriad of hues. These are but a very few of the suggestions which could be made. No doubt you have some others in mind, yourself. Try them out and become really acquainted with your projector. You will find it is well worth knowing. And now. the new . . BEADED SILVER MINUSA DE LUXE AUTOMATIC SCREEN The last word in "Home Movie" projection surfaces Merely raise the top — and the automatic side arms snap into place, holding the screen taut — always. And the lowering is just as simple. There's no inserting of side arms; no straightening of side arms; no adjusting of tension at the sides — it's all automatic. Made in a beautifully polished walnut finish that harmonizes with the best of appointed furnishings, and furnished in four popular sizes in either the "professional type" silver or beaded surface. MINUSA CINE SCREEN COMPANY BOMONT AT MORGAN SAINT LOUIS For seventeen years — the world's largest producers of Motion Picture Screens. M ssSSsa MAtWC* FULL THEATRE-LENGTH J REEL FEATURES Ready for OUTRIGHT SALE to private and RENTAL LIBRARIES Perfect reduction prints from finest quality professional producers' standard negatives Dealers may stimulate their 16% trade wonderfully and SEND FOR DESCRIPTIVE LISTS AND PRICES HOLLYWOOD MOVIt SUPPLY CO.... 6C58 SUNSET BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA CAMERAS* PROJECTORS IN THE WEST I mi $£?$?? I