Home Movies (Feb-Dec 1939)

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Randolph St. Chicago, III. THE HOME OF MOVIES Most Complete Amateur ond Commercial Motion Picture Establishment EQUIPMENT — A complete stock of new and used cameras, projectors, screens, lenses, titters, meters, tripods, reels, splicers, cases, and film, including repair sendee. COMMERCIAL motion pictures — write us about your problems. With over 15 years practical experience and using the finest equipment, we wi.l be able to help you. TITLING and EDITING — of every description — 8mm and 16mm double exposed titles with picture backgrounds made in black and white or Kodachrome with fade-ins, fade-outs, and cross dissolves. Kodachrome slides, maps, charts, etc., faithfully reproduced. DUPLICATING and laboratory work, including Ivodachrome duplicates, reductions, film cleaning, enlargements, and VapOrate process. RENTAL LIBRARY — over 350,000 ft. cf carefully se.ected 8 and 1 6mm subjects for rent and for sale. The pick of releases available — cartoons, comedies, feature, adventure, scenic, sports, and news subjects. Send 5 Cents for Film Rental Catalogue ZENITH CINEMA SERVICE 5011 N. Sawyer Ave., Chicago, III. Phones Irving 2104-2105 Established 1924 New model HOME MOVIE DEVELOPER for 8mm and 16mm film. Featuring new type self-threading developing reel. Uses small amount of developer. All steel loading stand. Comes complete with : Drying rack, 2 trays, red light, sponges, clips, etc. Also new and used camera equipment, unique inside lighting equipment, film, loading bags, etc. Write for complete circular. REISH MOVIE SERVICE 4030 South Michigan St. South Bend, Ind. Become an Expert Train at home or in our modem studios. For pleasure or career. Practical, individual instruction. Commercial, News, Portrait, Advertising, Natural Color, and Motion Picture photography. 20 t.h year. Send for free1 booklet. New York Institute of Photography 10 W. 33 St. (Dept. 114) New York City Mirror Tricks • Continued from Page 141 degree angle groove to the starting position of A in Fig. 1. The effect on the screen will show a burning candle, coming from nowhere in particular, burning a hole in the curtain and then abruptly disappearing, leaving no evidence of a burned spot in the curtain. The distance mentioned, of three feet away from the camera, may not be exact. This will have to be checked on the focussing ground-glass and adjusted, bearing in mind that whatever the change in distance, both objects must be equally distant. Another spectacular effect is that of a small, single, object (not a general scene or landscape) in the center of the image with small replicas of the object all around it, in a sort of geometric pattern. This is done with the old-fashioned “kaleidoscope,” a toy which our parents used to play with. To make your own “kaleidoscope” for this purpose, get a cheap mirror at the dime store, about 6 inches square. Cut three strips of this, about \l/> inches wide, the full length of six inches. Incline these strips against each other so they form a hollow triangle. Tape them together, at the ends and place in a tube, for convenience in revolving. See Figs. 3 and 4. To use the “kaleidoscope,” place it directly in front of the lens, in a true horizontal plane. Place the object a short distance from the other end and see what the resultant image looks like on the ground-glass. When properly placed, start the camera and revolve the tube slowly; keeping it, however, at the same distance from the camera at all times. For a final “fade-out,” you can slowly move the tube away from the camera which will cause the images to spread out and finally leave the picture. This device should be shot at about f/8, using more light, if necessary. Suppose you’d like to “kid” the audience by showing them a shot of your own home or backyard, or a busy downtown street appearing to be settled in the middle of a placid lake. The buildings reflected in the “water” as they would be, after a heavy flood. This is a cinch for the “Pro-sixteen.” “Rack over” to “focussing position” and place a mirror (about 3x5 inches) on a flat, horizontal plane, so that it about bisects the camera lens. T his is shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Watch your ground-glass image and cut off your picture at about the “curb” line of a sidewalk. The effect will be that of the upper part of the picture, inverted and a trifle “fuzzy,” reflected in what appears to be water. This trick is very often used in the major studios, to simulate a highly-polished floor of an THOROUGHLY TESTED AND GUARANTEED The New Tholhammer Kino Movie Accessories Will Aid You in Attaining Professional Results KINO MOVIE ASSEMBLY Includes the Kino Extension Rods, Adjustable Sunshade and Filter Holder. (May also $^c.00 be used for making titles, etc.) AJ (Available for most movie cameras) KINO EASY-OPEN EXTENSION PLUG Here's one that all Eastman MagazineCine-Kodak owners will want. It allows the camera cover to drop all the way open when using the "focusing finder" or when placing film in the camera. Eliminates the necessity of removing camera from tripod. For use with any $0.75 Thalhammer Tripod ^ Kino Instant-On Clamp — Use as adaptor base for Easy-Open Plug with any other make of .75 tripod T I When Writing for Our New 1939 Catalog Please Give Us Your Dealer’s Name THE THALHAMMER CO. 1015 W. 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