American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1949)

PROFESSIONAL JUNIOR CAMERA EQUIPMENT Interchangeable Removable Head Tripods FRICTION TYPE Handles 16mm. EK Cine Special with or without motor; 35mm. DeVry; B&H Eyemo with motor and 400' magazine; and all 16mm. hand-held cameras. Head is interchangeable with the Gear Drive head. Both types fit "Professional Junior" standard tripod base, "Hi-Hat" and "Baby" all-metal tripod base. GEAR DRIVE The head, made of Dow Metal magnesium, weighs but 5 Vi lbs. and is inter¬ changeable with the Fric¬ tion type head. It handles all types of cameras. Snapon metal cranks control pan and tilt action from both sides. Worm-driven gears are Gov't spec, bronze. STANDARD TRIPOD BASE AND COLLAPSIBLE ADJUSTABLE METAL TRIANGLE BLIMP for 16mm. CINE SPECIAL This Blimp constructed of Dow Metal magnesium, is thoroughly insulated to afford absolute silent operation. Exclusive features: Fol¬ low focus mechanism permits change of lens focus while camera is operating in blimp. Blimp takes synchronous motor drive which couples to camera. A dovetail bracket is provided to mount an erect image viewfinder. SUNSHADE & FILTER HOLDER COMBINATION For use with Bolex and Cine Special 16mm. cameras. Holds two 2" sq. glass filters and a round ZVi" Pola Screen with handle which can be rotated for polarization. Covers all lenses from 1 5mm. to 6" telephoto and eliminates need of various filters. Precision made of the finest materials. Compact, simple to assemble and dis¬ mount. May be permanently affixed to camera or quickly detached. — ALSO AVAILABLE — BABY TRIPODS 3 WHEEL PORTABLE DOLLYS CHANCING BAGS “HI-HATS” Send for our catalog. It describes all our products completely. FRANK C. ZUCKER (JflniERRtc )UIPm€l1T ( 0. 1600 BROHDWfly \ nEwyoRKcuy ^ is released. This is an improvement over the old shear pin, since it does not re¬ quire replacement of any part but is ready to go to work again the instant the load is reduced to normal. The camera has a four-lens turret with a positive lock pin so that the lens cannot be displaced accidentally. The threaded holes in this turret take the standard C mount lenses, and experi¬ enced cinematographers will welcome the fact that these holes are deep enough to accept lenses which will not fit on many cameras of other makes. In fact, they are 33 per cent deeper than certain other makes of cameras. The camera can be supplied with the studio type ground glass finder if de¬ sired, but the Nord Company has de¬ signed a new type of finder which has certain interesting improvements. This finder can be set by a turn of a knob to conform to any focal length lens from the extreme wide angle to 8 inch focal length. This new finder operates somewhat similar to a telecope and provides a bril¬ liant direct image corrected right and left. As the adjustment knob is rotated, a semi-zoom effect takes place ; the image itself changes size, so that in telephoto position a good size field is visible. It can be used with wide angle lenses as short as I2j^mm. The finder will thus cover the entire range of lenses available today. BUDGET YOUR IDEAS FOR VACATION MOVIES (Continued from Page 287) shortcomings — for NG’d scenes, retakes and the like. So by now you should know what is to be the main interest of your vacation film, and how much footage you can allow yourself to shoot. Since few movies can confine themselves to exclusively to answering one question, some footage should be allowed for the supplementary answers. Then, if you force yourself to say “no” to every suggestion of filming anything that doesn’t have its definite part in the scheme, your film must in¬ evitably tell the story you want it to tell. The biggest problem, sometimes, is recognizing what kind of a vacation yours is going to be — whether it is a “Where?” vacation, a “What?” vacation, or “Who?” or “How?” This isn’t nearly as difficult as it seems, however, if you just take the time to analyze your vaca¬ tion plans. Let us suppose you are one of those fortunate people planning a vacation trip to Hawaii. Generally speaking, a trip like this is definitely a “Where?” story. Outside of perhaps a half-a-dozen shots 298 • American Cinematographer August, 1949