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292 AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING
a faint path. Note carefully the position of this path in the focusser. Now upon another film make a picture of a girl walking down a path so that she follows about the same direction as in the small path in the ant picture. The effectiveness will depend upon the exactitude with which the two paths coincide. Make this shot with either a white drop or the sky as background. Develop both films, calling the ant hill film one and the girl film two. Film two is developed to give an absolutely opaque background. Print film two so densely that you have a black figure in a colorless background (negative) this is film three. Now thread the printer using film one as the negative, but between this and the raw positive, film three is placed to act as a mask. Before starting to print cut a notch at the edge of the films, and through all three films. This notch indicates the relative positions of the films and is called the "registration mark." Print this film, but do not develop the print. Now carefully register films two and three and in film two make a notch to correspond with that in film three. Thread up the printer, having rewound the printed positive. Eegister the notches and print again, using this time only film two as a negative. Now develop. If the work has been carefully done and the printer in good condition, the two sets of images will register and you will have the effect described. Film three is only a mask, preventing film one from printing in the space to be occupied by the image in film two.
White fades may be made by gradually closing the printing aperture while printing. In this effect the picture fades out until the screen is white instead of black as is the case in the usual camera fade.
Ordinary or "black" fades are made by gradually opening the printing aperture and then gradually slowing printer speed, thus giving an increasing over-exposure to the print.
There is one stunt which the experimenter can use to very great advantage. This is the copying of still pictures of various kinds for inclusion in his films. Anyone who can make a title can do this work. Select the picture desired, make a regular title set-up and make the exposure.