The Cine Technician (1935-1937)

Aug. -Oct., 1936 The Journal of the Association of CineTechnicians 53 (8) Photograph a dozen of the studio staff standing 30 ft. away from the camera using a 40 mm. lens, and see whether you can recognise them individually on the screen." This book should certainly be read by all cine-technicians on the camera side. If the technician already posesses all the knowledge of the theory and practice of coloiucinematography that is in this book (which is very doubtful) even then he will definitelv be interested by the historical section of the book. Your Association Ways of Killing It Some ways of killing a club are listed in an American journal. Some might apply to certain Cine-Technicians. Don't come to the meetings. But if you do come, come late. If the weather doesn't suit you, don't think of coming. If you do attend a meeting, find fault with the work of the officials and other members. Never accept an office, as it is easier to criticise than to do things. Nevertheless, get sore if you are not appointed on a committee, but if you are, do not attend committee meetings. If asked by your chairman to give your opinion regarding some important matter, tell him you have nothing to say. After the meeting tell everyone how things ought to have been done. Do nothing more than is absolutelv necessarv, but when other members roll up their sleeves and willingly, unselfishly use their ability to help matters along, howl that the association is run by a clique. Hold back your dues as long as possible, or don't pay at all. Don't bother about getting new members. Let the secretary do it. When a banquet is given, tell everybody money is being wasted on blow-outs which make a big noise and accomplish nothing. When no banquets are given, say the club is dead and needs a can tied to it ! Don't tell the club how it can help you, but if it doesn't help you, resign. If you receive service without joining, don't think of joining. If the club doesn't correct abuses in your neighbour's business, howl that nothing is done. Keep your eye open for something wrong, and when you find it, resign. At every opportunity threaten to resign and get your friends to resign. When you attend a meeting, vote to do something and then go home and do the opposite. Agree to everything said at the meeting and disagree with it outside. When asked for information, don't give it. Cuss the club for the incompleteness of its information. When everything else fails, cuss the secretary. — (Reprinted from The Commercial Traveller). JUST PUBLISHED. COLOUR CINEMATOGRAPHY By MADOR ADRIAN BERNARD KLEIN, M.B.E., A.R.P.S., Technical Director of Gasporcolour LM. This is probably the first book dealing exclusivelv with colour cinematographv. and it should fill a long-fett gap in the literature of photography; in the past the enquirer having been much hampered by the necessity of consulting numberless technical journals, obscure periodicals, or chapters in rare books. Moreover, in view of the misconceptions which are all too common among those in the industry, it has become quite an urgent matter that a book containing the required information should be made available without further delay. CONTENTS: Preface. Historical Summary. Part I. : Theoretical Basis. Additive Processes. Subtractive Processes. Colour-Cameras and Beam-Splitting Systems. Bipack. Part 2: Analysis and Synthesis Problems. The Phenomena of Colour Vision and the making of Films in Colour. Appendices: Lenses employed in the Technicolor and Process of Cinematography, by H. W Lee. A Glossary of Colour Photography. The Klein Tricolour Camera. The harmonicolor Process. Index. "It represents a monument of technical and historical research. It is safe to say that never before has such a voluminous record of proved ^and disproved — colour systems been compiled." — Kinematograph. "An interesting and valuable summary of the whole theory and practice of colour cinematography . . . its value is enhanced by a large number of photographs and diagram illustrations." — The Cinema. Demy 8vo . 362 pages, 135 Illustrations, including 29 Half-tone Plates. 25s. net. CINE-PHOTOGRAPHY FOR AMATEURS By ]. H. REYNER, B.Sc, A.C.G.I., A M.I.E.E., etc. CONTENTS : The Principles of Cine-Photography. Lenses. Exposure. Lighting. Colour. How to Make Good Films. Projection. Editing and Titling. Trick Effects and Special Subjects. The Dark Room. Home Talkies. Appendices. Formula?. Weights and Measures. Speed of film by Daylight and Artificial Light. Summary of Principal 9.5 mm Equipment. Summary of Principal 16 mm. Equipment. Summary of 8 mm. Apparatus. Index. "It contains encyclopmdic information on the questions which confront the amateur cineniatographer. Yet it avoids being a medley of disconnected tips. The fundamental principles of each matter dealt with are lucidly set out. " — Sight and Sound Second and Revised Edition. 71 Illustrations. Demy 8vo 192 pages. 10s. 6d. net. Detailed Prosijecttises. post free, on application. CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD., 11, HENRIETTA ST., LONDON, W.C.2