American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1941)

speeds — the normal 16-speed, for general silent-picture use; 24-speed, for sound to be added later, etc.; 32-speed, for shooting from moving vehicles and for fast action shots; 48-speed, for semi-slow motion ; and 64-speed, for analytical slow-motion study. Agfa 35mm. Copying Films Photographers and documentary technicians engaged in microcopying will be interested in two current developments affecting Agfa films used in their work. The films involved are Minipan and Minipositive, both made by Agfa Ansco in Binghamton, New York. Agfa Minipan film, the new and yet already popular film of high resolving power for microcopying, is now supplied at a new, lower price. The 100foot darkroom-loading and daylightloading 35mm. spools now list at $5.25 each. Agfa Minipositive, a new film with an emulsion having special characteristics essential for microcopying, is now available to complement the function of Agfa Minipan. The new Minipositive film incorporates balanced characteristics of fine grain, high contrast and high resolving power that make it ideal for preparation of positive transparencies from microcopy negatives. The standard 100-foot length, perforated or unperforated, darkroom-loading spool of Minipositive lists at $3.75. MOVIOLA FILM EDITING EQUIPMENT Used in Every Major Studio Illustrated Literature on request MOVIOLA CO. 1451 Gordon St. Hollywood, Calif. FAXON DEAN INC. CAMERAS BLIMPS-DOLLYS FOR RENT Day, NOrmandie 22184 Night, SUnset 2-1271 4516 Sunset Boulevard Kodachrome Processing Kodachrome Film in the 35mm. and Bantam sizes can now be processed at laboratories in Rochester, Chicago, and Hollywood, and should be sent to the nearest one, the Eastman Kodak Company announces. The addresses are: Eastman Kodak Company, 1017 N. Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, California; Eastman Kodak Company, 1712 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois; and Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. Filmosound Library in San Francisco The Bell & Howell Company, Chicago, opened a San Francisco Branch of the Bell & Howell 16mm. Filmosound library this month, at Photo & Sounu, Inc., San Francisco. Photo & Sound, Inc., producers of industrial and educational pictures, will handle the film distribution and rental for Northern California, making it possible for 16mm. projection owners in that area to receive one-day service on rentals. Bell & Howell Company now has three West Coast branches, Hollywood, San Francisco and Seattle. Agfa Fluorapid 35mm. Following extensive experimental work and close cooperation with interested medical authorities, a new Agfa film has been perfected which is ideally suited to the direct photography of fluorescent screens. Known as Fluorapid, the new emulsion is made by Agfa Ansco in Binghamton, New York, and will be available in various lengths of perforated 35mm. film stock. Main application of the new Agfa Fluorapid film will be its use in largescale x-ray surveys, where small-size records of x-ray examinations are preferred for reasons of economy and filing space. Additional applications are anticipated in other fields employing fluorescent screen images. The characteristics of the Fluorapid emulsion include unusually high sensitivity to fluorescent-screen radiation, fine grain, moderately brilliant gradation and a color-sensitivity closely matching the spectral emission of standard fluorescent screens. Regularly available sizes of Fluorapid film will include 5i:2-ioot spool, 36-exposure Leica-type cai-tridge, 250-exposure Leica FF spool, and 33and 100-foot bulk lengths. Oddities Shown in Film In Milwaukee, according to Nu-Art Films of New York, a vehicle can park only two hours — unless it is hitched to a horse! This and a number of other idiosyncrasies of the traffic laws of several states are shown in the single-reel 16mm. subject, "Oddities In The Law," distributed bv Nu-Art. Rodgers G-E Studio Contact Man Replacing Lieut, (s.g.) Francis M Falge, recently called into active a by the U. S. Navy, Alston Rodgers, Di vision Engineer of the South Pacini Division of the General Electric C6| Lamp Dept., takes over the post of hi firm's technical consultant on si lighting matters. Rodgers has actively engaged as a lighting engir.ee for fifteen years. He joined the Edisoi Lamp Works at Harrison, X. J., his graduation from the Stevens I tute of Technology. Subsequently h operated in the design of many of outstanding lighting installations in ami around New York City. He has alwayi been particularly active in studio arm theatrical lighting. He joined the G-E Engineering De, partment at Xela Park (Cleveland Ohio) in 1930, and for several years did noteworthy pioneering engineering worl there. At that time he was associateoj with the many G-E researchers workinj, on designs and experiments which re suited in the production and imp] ment of incandescent lamps for motioi| picture studio use. Since 1936 Rodgers has been located in Los Angeles, as Division Engineei| and is already well-known to man}i studio people. He is assuming his nevj responsibilities immediately. Lt. Falgej his predecessor, is now on active dun with the Navy, aboard the U.S.S. Aril zona of the Pacific Fleet. END. Projectors — and cameras — should b oiled at frequent intervals, but sparf ingly. A drop or two each time is enor.irhl 200 April, 1941 American Cinematographer