Home Movies (Jan-Dec 1940)

HOME MOVIES FOR JUNE PAGE 301 film. It is also wise to try two films through the camera to see that the camera will accommodate both thicknesses satisfactorily. This applies also to single 8mm cameras (which, incidentally, must thread the second film with the emulsion side toward the lens, since this is the only way they will go through the camera right side up). Users of double 8mm cameras will have difficulty in performing this method, if not finding it impossible. Now that the two films are threaded, the side is replaced on the camera, and the second exposure, or that of the background, made. This is done by pointing the camera at clear, blue sky and exposing at about F. 5.6 or F. 8 if a darker background is desired. These exposures are both approximate, since the light intensity of the sky as well as the density of the film being printed will vary. Focusing in such a case is unimportant. Indoors, the camera can be pointed at an electric light bulb held an inch or so away from the camera lens. With a 60-watt bulb so placed, an exposure of F. 11 should be about right. Users of laboratory equipment such as printers and facilities for developing their own films will find still another method satis factory. In making the title, black letters on white paper are used and positive film is threaded in the camera. This is the usual procedure for direct positive titles but to get the motion a negative film is threaded in the camera along with the raw positive film. For good definition this negative should not be too dense and should be threaded with the shiny side toward the lens. The exposure is made the same as though an ordinary positive title was beingmade. If the negative is thin enough, no increase in exposure is necessary, but with dense negatives a larger stop may have to be used. With two No. 1 photoflood bulbs in reflectors 9 inches away, F.5.6 should be about right. In such cases a softer developing formula than is usually employed with positive film titles should be used in order to give the background warmth and and not the usual harsh contrast. The methods described here are the basic procedures. There is no end to the variations a worker can discover after he has made a few titles with moving backgrounds. Fades, dissolves, and all the other usual title tricks are just as possible as when there is no motion in the background. Plan a treasure hunt . . . ® Continued from Page 21 4 struction cards giving exposure data for each location be installed on each stand. In addition to the vantage afforded by use of the camera stands, there will be numerous other points from which one will wish to film, and the following suggestions on locations or approximate positions for setting up the camera may prove helpful : Panorama of the Exposition: Shoot from deck of Ferry as it approaches Treasure Island. 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