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AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING 233
ject the film for the last time. By this time you will have become thoroughly familiar with the film and you will notice the minutinae which make or mar the whole. Thus a final or "polishing" cutting will smooth out the whole film and you will have a motion picture record which you may exhibit to your friends with pride.
In the case of the usual film, this copy is the only one made. Therefore the editing is done upon the positive which will be projected. In case the two-film process is used, as soon as the positive is cut satisfactorily, the negative is cut to correspond. Then every print made from this negative will be an exact duplicate of the edited positive, eliminating the necessity for editing every positive made from the negative.
When edition is complete, the film is polished and stored. A piece of hard felt about 2x6 inches and % inch thick is covered with soft cotton cloth and glued or tacked to the rewind base. The film is now threaded upon the rewinds so that it passes this pad dull side down. A pad is made by folding a piece of chamois skin several times. This is saturated with alcohol, but not to a point where it will drip. As the film passes over the pad, the back or polished side of the film is briskly rubbed with the alcohol pad. This removes water marks, finger marks and other similar marks which would interfere with good projection. This is known as "polishing" the film. When it is polished it is wound upon a reel with the emulsion side out (if a print, emulsion in if it is a reversed print ) . It is wound firmly but not tightly enough to "cinch" the film causing "cinch marks." When it is wound upon the reel the end of the film is secured with a film clip, to prevent the film from unwinding.
The film is now stored in a humidor until it is wanted for projection. The humidor is a can or box, holding one or more reels of film, and provided with an absorbent pad. This pad is kept moistened. This in turn prevents the films from drying out and becoming brittle. It is essential that films be kept in a humidor of some kind, if they are to be preserved for any length of time. The humidor pad should