Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)

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Record Details:

Title:
Agfa motion picture topics
Date:
Apr 1937-June 1940
Publisher:
Hollywood : C. King Charney, Inc.
Volume:
Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)
Leaf #:
000295
Language:
English
Collection:
Technical Journals and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 02, 2024
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The Project London use American-made prints of Hollywood pictures — using either the master-print that is sent over with the duping lavender, or the lavender itself — while the smaller houses naturally use British-made prints. The difference is incredible, even to one who has seen what he thought were the maximum possible variations in print-quality. Use Less Light Abroad There is one phase of European laboratory work that I don’t believe has been brought out by anyone before. That is that the European lab’s negative development gives you more of the advantage of today’s high film speeds. Looking about the various sets here before I started my own picture, I noticed that almost universally my Photographed by Herbert P. Bond friends here in Hollywood seemed to be using quite a bit more light than was the rule in Europe. When I started my first picture, Voco Productions’ “Dreaming Out Loud" for RKO release, I found that I was using close to 40 per cent more light than I had been accustomed to using on film of equal speed in England. Of course, if one knows how to balance light, this makes little difference in the result on the screen: but a 40 per cent saving in lighting can be a useful factor in production economy, just the same. On the other hand, nothing I found in Europe, either in European-made negative or in imported, Americanmade stock, could equal the Agfa Supreme negative I am using for