American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1952)

Bell & Howell Company, Chicago, III., “Tips On Color Movie Making” con¬ tains much detailed information aimed at improving the color movie making of both the beginning and the advanced amateur movie maker. Chapters deal with equipment, filters, exposure, and how to gauge exposures for best color results when shooting at the beach, mountains, filming land¬ scapes, closeups, etc. Specific problems of both indoor and outdoor movie mak¬ ing are treated informatively and con¬ cisely, making this a valuable booklet to tuck away in your camera case and keep it there for ready reference at all times. Copies are available at camera stores handling Bell & Howell equipment, or may be ordered direct from the com¬ pany whose address is 7100 McCormick Road, Chicago 45, Ill. COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY — “Color Photo¬ graphy Made Easy” is a new booklet written especially for the still photo¬ grapher and published by Ansco, Bing¬ hamton, New York. This new edition of Ansco’s valuable booklet on color photo¬ graphy also will find interest among amateur movie makers. It is 71/f> by 5!/f> inches in size,, and is replete with num¬ erous illustrations in full color. Booklet covers all aspects of indoor and outdoor color photography, both still and movies, discusses color prints made from transparencies on Printon, includes data, both basic and advanced (in separate sections) relating to filters and their uses, exposure and exposure meters, lighting and processing equip¬ ment and techniques; lists complete in¬ formation on developing and printing; gives the requirements for good color photography including the latest tech¬ niques. It also discusses color temperature control, portrait lighting, lftakeup, news photography, copy work, biological pho¬ tography, photomicrography, mentions the cameras suitable for color work, and contains flash and exposure guides. For the advanced photographer, tech¬ nical information describes the structure of Ansco Color films and how they work; color formation in the film; how to correct improperly exposed film by selective reducing; salvaging of trans¬ parencies; the making of black-andwhites and dupes from color transparen¬ cies and similar valuable information. Booklet is available at camera stores everywhere at 50c per copy. 50,000 Motion Pictures, 1912 to 1940 ! The Library of Congress has issued a monumental 1,156-page catalog that lists more than 50,000 motion pic¬ tures registered in the Copyright Office from 1912 through 1939. Entitled “Mo¬ tion Pictures, 1912-1939,” the catalog contains much information that has hitherto been available only after pro¬ longed research in the files of the Gov¬ ernment Copyright Office. As time passes and old producing companies and their films are forgotten, this volume will become increasingly valuable as a reference book on films and film history. The information given about each film includes, insofar as pos¬ sible, the title, date, producing company, sponsor, information about the publish¬ ed work on which the film was based, physical description, credits, claimant and data of copyright, and the author of the film story. The material for the entries, which are listed alphabetically, was obtained mainly from the record books of the Copyright Office, the orig¬ inal applications for the registration of the copyright claims, and descriptive material that was supplied at the time the films were registered. The cumulative catalog has a 268-page index, which lists the individuals and organizations associated with each mo¬ tion picture, and a “Series List,” which provides the name of the copyright claimant and the title and date for each motion picture of a series. Any particu¬ lar film may be located in a variety of ways — by title, producing company, copyright claimant, alternate title, name of the work on which the film was based, series title, author of the film story, sponsor, and releasing or distributing agents. “Motion Pictures, 1912-1939” is the first publication in the cumulative series of the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Work has started on a supplementary volume that will cover motion pictures copyrighted in the years 1940 to 1949. These two cumulative volumes and the subsequent semiannual issues of Motion Pictures and Filmstrips in the regular series of the Catalog of Copyright En¬ tries will constitute a comprehensive bibliography of United States motion pictures from 1912 to date. The volume, which is buckram-bound, is for sale by the Copyright Office, Li¬ brary of Congress, Washington 25, D.C., for $18 a copy. EVER try locating an article you saw in an earlier issue of American Cinema¬ tographer? 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