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35MM. ENLARGEMENTS FROM "KING WINTER" Photographed by Chalmer Sinkey
Infra-Red For Dramatic Effects
By CHARLES FORD,
Producer, Republic Studios.
TESTS — especially tests of new photographic materials or methods — are ordinarily an extremely private matter. They are made solely for showing to company personnel, for guidance in applying the new material or method to actual production.
Shortly before I left my former post as Editor of the Universal Newsreel to accept my present place with Republic Studios, however, I participated in the making of a test which I believe is unique. It was our first test of Agfa Infra-Red negative film. Intended solely as a test, the results proved so unusual that we released the test as a regular issue of Universal's short-subjects series "Going Places"!
Moreover, the film has proved remarkably successful. Titled "King Winter", it was filmed entirely among the snow-clad mountains surrounding Crater Lake in Oregon. Its appeal depends wholly upon the bizarre quality of its photography. Chalmer Sinkey, who photographed it, deserves a world of credit for the unusual way his camera has dramatized the weird beauty of the scenes, and for the technical skill which enabled him to obtain such results with a new and unfamiliar sensitive material. Characteristically, he gives much of the credit to the fact that the Infra-Red film enabled him to achieve dramatic effects impossible with ordinary emulsions.
Dramatic Day Effects
At about this point, I can hear my friends among the studio cinematographers, who for several years have used this film for dramatic night-effects, beginning to wonder audibly why we thought there was anything unusual about getting dramatic effects with Infra-Red film. True enough, there would be nothing
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