Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

WE WERE SWAMPED fording wonderful wild life and scenic subjects. One may take an automobile to an altitude of 7000 feet and revel in a paradise of beauty with wildflowers, snowfields and glaciers on every side. The province of British Columbia offers unlimited opportunities to the amateur cinematographer, inviting him to come adventuring in the depths of its forests and on the peaks of its giant guardians. Racks Tanks and Drums ATTENTION of the amateur who is doing his own developing, or wishes to experiment with it, is called to the film racks, tanks and drying drums of the A. J. Corcoran Co., Inc., of Jersey City, N. J. This company has recently manufactured a developing rack especially for 16 mm. film. At considerable expense they have built a special room for paranning the racks, which makes the bars on which the film is wound very smooth and prolongs the life of the rack. with requests for the film "Fine Arts in Metal," the story of Gor h a m Silver, which was described and advertised in this column last month. If you did not read "Silver Craftsmen on the Silver Screen," by all means turn back to page 17 of the January issue and then hasten to fill in the coupon below and get on the list of delighted amateurs who boast of having Exposure Meter shown this film in their own homes. T^ Rexo cine exposure meter, an ■* efficient, economical, easily Just send in stamps to cover postage manipulated meter, is called to the on a package weighing seven attention of amateurs by the Burke „-, „ j„ n„ -r r -tt & James Co., of Chicago, manufact pounds, or if you prefer, we will urerg of ^ weU ^ ;„ lme of ship express collect. "Rexo" photo materials. The meter is composed of two There are no revolving discs that work against strings attach each othf m^inS e"ors Poetically ° impossible. Ihe various light con ■ ed to this of ditions are divided into four general fer all we ask classifications. These four classes , cover all light conditions generally IS that you en met wjtn m cinematography. Only joy this two figures are visible to the user at any one setting. These figures, one w i V ^ ♦ ^ for summer and one for winter, are 1H "#• f\ /ZSk ri "^ I "^Y^ widely separated so that there is no A JL h»^ ^^ JL JL JLJLJLJL chance for error. (Available Only in the United States) The meter has been especially designed for the amateur by H. Syril Dusenbury after months of testing tyS and checking and is absolutely ac curate for all settings. Its handyEducational Film Division gize and H ht weight enables it t0 220 WEST 42nd STREET be slipped into the vest pocket. new york, n. y. Service Department TO meet the demands of 1928, a new employment and service de220 W. 42nd St., New York City. Dept. "G" partment has been added to the many I would like to show the film "FINE ARTS facilities offered by the New York IN METAL" in my home on Institute of Photography, so that ade I use a 1 6mm projector. quate assistance may be given to every student, resident as well as Name , J , home study. Address Preparations have also been made to increase the efficiency of the de y partment which handle the cor (I understand that the only charges are to be respondence of the many students for shipping both ways). AMM-F wno live outside the United States, ^^.^^^^.^^^^.^. 4r~^r~; and particularly of those who live One-hundred-jour teen at such a distance that the mail transport time is a matter of consequence. The many students resident in Asia, Australia and the islands of the Pacific have made this step necessary. It is interesting to note that after his graduation from the Institute, Mr. M. Gallo opened a portrait studio in the new Savoy-Plaza Hotel, on Fifth Avenue. Film Cementer A HANDY little film cement can, which greatly simplifies the operation of applying cement in splicing film, has been designed for the amateur by Henry Couillard, Los Angeles, California. This little container, small enough to fit in the vest pocket, has a patented stopper that seals the cement in the can when not in use, and prevents evaporation. All that is necessary to start the cement flowing is to pull the plunger from the nozzle, tip the can in proper position over the splice to be made, and press gently on the sides to force the cement out. The operation can be performed with one hand, leaving the other hand free to manipulate the film. This device should greatly increase the speed and cleanliness in splicing. Projection Screen A SCREEN which has been recently called to our attention and which has not yet been announced in this department is the compact Minusa box portable screen. The silver screen is on a spring roller, enclosed in a box, and when set up has no sags or wrinkles in it. The box is decorated with nickel trimmings and has a hinged cover. Film Cleaning Machine npHE Filmedor, a sturdily built but ■*• compact light-weight machine for cleaning either 35 or 16mm. film was placed on the market recently by Movieads, Inc. The Filmedor, used in connection with a rewinder, enables the amateur to thoroughly clean and renovate his film with a minimum of time and trouble. The film to be cleaned is placed on two pads and rollers, the pads previously having been saturated with Filmite. Another set of pads is clamped down on the lower ones, over the film, and the film then wound through. An additional feature is an electric bulb, fastened to the machine, about an inch above the film, which insures the film being thoroughly dry before it passes to the takeup reel. With this machine many old films can be reconditioned and new ones preserved to give much longer service.