Home Movies (Jan-Dec 1940)

PAGE 292 HOME MOVIES FOR JUNE 1 •) B & H Snood Projector The Filmosound Projector, a deluxe sound-on-film model designed especially for home use, is announced by Bell & Howell, Chicago. Housed in polished walnut cases, the unit is said to be fundamentally the same as that of the “Academy” Filmosound. A 750-watt lamp furnishes illumination. For the projection of silent films, a phonograph turntable, also in walnut cases, will soon be available. This unit is plugged into the Filmosound and accompanying music or sound is heard from a speaker near the screen when silent pictures are shown. DeJur “Critic” Meter The patented “louvre” feature of the new DeJur “Critic” electric exposure meter enables the meter to see only what the camera lens sees. Sensitivity is said to range from .1 to 4000 foot candles and film speeds from .3 to 800 official Weston. It also provides for a range of shutter speeds from 60 seconds to l/2000th of a second. Other features are the single scale, and the one piece plastic case. New Cine Film Consumer Film Products of New York are placing on the market their new film, which for the time being can be bought only from their main office at 1 Park Avenue, New York City. This film has been in use in several eastern locations for some time and the manufacturers feel it is now ready for national distribution and usage. Connected with the Labora tory Department of Consumer Film are ten experts who are thoroughly experienced in every phase of processing film, according to Consumer Film Products. Cine Kodak Guide A universal Cine-Kodak Exposure Guide, furnishing quick data for all 8 and 16mm Cine-Kodak films, black and white or Kodachrome, which will be a part of each new Cine-Kodak, is announced by Eastman. It is a satin-chromium plate with movable dial and retain ing grooves for small insert cards — one card for each type of film. Plate and dial, permanently attached to the side of the camera, bear a lens-aperture scale, camera speed arrow and the subject classifications of “light”, “normal” and “dark”. The new guide can be attached to any present CineKodak and a pocket model, with complete set of cards, is also available. New Superior Products New products of the Superior Bulk Film Company include the Sensigraph Capsule, a convenient hyper-sensitizing agent that doubles the speed of ordinary film. Also the recently introduced Graphic Reel for home processing of movie film, and the Superior Film Slitter, a simplified device for easy slitting of double 8mm film. Graphichrome plus highspeed movie film was introduced several months ago, featuring Superior’s daylightloading leaders and trailers heretofore not available on 8mm film. Daylight leaders are now available on 100-foot rolls of single 8mm film for Uni vex and other cameras using single 8mm film. Besbee New opportunities for novel and interesting outdoor movie shots are offered in the Besbee Closeup Combination Kit, which makes it easy to produce sharp closeups of small objects, indoors and out. Movie makers will welcome this possibility especially during the coming Spring and Summer seasons, because this new Kit is designed to work with any movie camera in making sharp closeups of flowers, small birds and animals, botanical details, insects, etc. The Kit consists of a tripod table (which also can be used effectively with the camera handle supplied), an adjustable lens holder universally adaptable to any 8mm. or 16mm camera, and two closeup auxiliary lenses, giv ing sharp closeups of objects at distances of ten and thirty inches. The special camera handle, which is a regular part of the Kit, may be used on all occasions and is a real aid to the steady holding of the camera. Sixty-inch Telephoto Claimed as the longest focus, largest aperture telephoto I lens commercially produced, J. H. Dallmeyer, Ltd., have announced details of a new Dallon Anastigmat having an equivalent focal length of 60 inches, with an aperture of f/8. Some idea of its huge size will be gained from the accompanying illustration, which shows it side by side with a four-inch f/5.6 Dallon. Although this lens was made for special press work, the possibilities it offers have led to a decision to list it as a standard production. As required, it can be adapted for use with miniature and cinematograph cameras. With the former cameras it would give a linear magnification of 30 times, and sixty times with cinematograph cameras. Revere The Revere Camera Co., Chicago, announces the addition of a new Turret Mount 8mm Camera to its line of motion picture equipment. This camera has the same precision mechanism as the Revere Double 8mm Camera, Model 88 which was announced recently but is equipped with a rotating turret head for three screw-type lenses. It also has an extra optical