The Educational screen (c1922-c1956])

Page 220 The Educational Screen AMONG THE PRODUCERS Where the commercial firms — whose activities have an important bearing on progress in the visual field are free to tell their story in their own words. The Educational Screen is glad to reprint here, within nee- essary space limitations, such material as seems to have most informational and news value to our readers. A Novel Cine Kodak Eastman Kodak Company has just introduced the Cine-Kodak Eight, which is designed to lower the cost of home movies considerably since a 25-foot roll of film in this new camera, which is small enough to fit in a coat pocket, will give as many pictures as 100 feet from other cameras using 16mm. film. The new camera loads with a 25-foot roll of special 16mm. film, but it exposes only half the width of the film at a time, recording a series of complete images on each half. When the 25 feet have run through once, the spool containing the film is removed and placed on the supply spindle. The other half of the film is then exposed. The width of each image being thus reduced by half, the height is similarly reduced and the number of images down the length of the film is doubled in consequence, thus quadrupling the number of images recorded in a given length of film. When the exposed film reaches a processing sta- tion, it is processed, slit down the middle, spliced end- to-end, and then returned to the movie maker as a 50-foot reel of 8mm. film with perforations down one side. Perforations on the special film for the Cine-Kodak Eight are spaced half as far apart as on other 16mm. film. The special 25-foot rolls of film have an extremely fine-grained panchromatic emulsion that assures a clear, sparkling screen image in spite of great mag- nification. A black coating on the hack of the film reduces the possibility of halation. The Cine-Kodak Eight, equipped with a Kodak Anastigmat f.3.5 lens, is the lightest, "smallest home movie camera with a film capacity permitting four minutes of projection. The low cost of both the apparatus and the film, together with the novel com- pactness and simplicity of the equipment at no sac- rifice of convenience, promise that the Cine-Kodak Eight will find wide acceptance among the large group of persons who wish to make movies but who feel that they cannot afford the special features of 16mm, equipment. Two Kodascope Eights have been designed for the projection of the new 8mm. movies. Both Koda- scopes have the capacity to project 200 feet of 8mm. film at a single showing—the equivalent of 400 16mm. feet—with a running time of 16 minutes. The Kodascope Eight, Model 60, is equipped with a 100-watt pre-focussed projection lamp with a de- centered filament. The projection lens has a focal length of one inch. A high-speed motor-driven re- wind requiring no changing of belts or reels, and pro- vision for plugging in a table lamp to turn on auto- matically when the projector is turned off, are other features. The Kodascope Eight, Model 20, also has a one-inch lens. It is equipped with a dependable lamp for adequate illumination. The size of both projectors permits very easy carrying. As in the case of full-width 16mm. movies, titles will be available for spacing into film exposed in the Cine-Kodak Eight. Miscellaneous successful profes- sional motion pictures for showing with the Koda- scope Eight also will be prepared, under the name "Cinegraph Eight." A New Leica Projector Leica owners as well as all miniature camera owners will be interested in the new Udimo Film and Glass Slide Projector which is now being distributed by E. Leitz, Inc., New York City. This projector uses single frame, double frame and the half vest pocket (3x4cm) size pictures. The new Udimo Projector permits the use of all the interchangeable Leica objectives and also the 80mm. and 120mm. special projection lenses. The projector is provided with large film spools to ac- commodate 35mm. film up to 35 feet in length. Inter- changeable sliding gates are used for covering the different picture areas on the film and glass slides. Another novel feature of the new projector is the glass slide changing magazine which holds 60 2x2 inch glass slides. The slides are automatically changed from one side of the projector to the other during the showing of the pictures. This arrangement is of special value for lecturers who wish to keep their pictures in definite sequences and at the" same time have an opportunity to change the order of the pic- tures. "Projecting Leica Pictures" is the title of a new Booklet No. 1209 giving complete information about the fJdimo Projector. Copies of this new booklet may be secured from E. Leitz, Inc., 60 East 10th St., New York, X. Y. Two Lenses Announced by Bell & Howell Two newly developed Cooke lenses are now offered by the Bell & Howell Company, Chicago. Both are for 16 mm. cine use, one being for the Eilmo 70 Cam- era and the other for the Filmo Projector. The Filmo Camera lens is the Cooke 1-inch El.3. It is asserted that this objective has the fastest work- {Concluded on page 222)