Home Movies (Jan-Dec 1948)

260 HOME MOVIES FOR MAY THREE NEW ONE REEL SHORT SUBJECTS 16mm. on Sound film “Dances That Thrill" "Night Club Girls" "Dancing Dolls" OF BURLESQUE • Write for Catalog of 16mm and 8mm Films • produced and distributed by Quality Pictures Co. 5634 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood 38, California WRITE FOR FREE CIRCULAR Ortho Weston 6 BULK FILM PROCESS IT YOURSELF Panchromatic Weston 64 100 ft. Single 8 — $ 1.15 $2.35 $2 40 100 ft. Double 8— $1.65. $3.85 $3 95 100 ft. 16mm. . —$1.55 $3.80 $3.90 Since the above prices do not include develop ing, why not get one of our low cost developing sets and develop your own movies? The set consists of developing rack, tray safelight and set of prepared developing powders, together with a_ simple step by step instruction sheet. 30 ft. single 8 set $4.20; 33 ft. Double 8 or 16mm. set $5.85. Show your moves two hours after they are taken. FROMADER GENERA CO. Davenport 7, Iowa Special Service For Movie-Makers SOUND ON YOUR FILMS AT COST PRICE Why? — To Introduce our new low-cost service and prove we can do "quality" work at HALF the regular PRICE. Write and tell us your needs and we'll quote a price that will amaze you! ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Titling, editing and narration too! LARRY FRISCH RECORDING STUDIOS M' Winner Var Halen Sound-On-Film Award 1761 W. 23rd St. Los Angeles, Calif. * HAVE you a perplexing problem in photography, editing, titling, or processing of home movies? Then tell it to the editors. This "problem untangling*’ service is free to every reader of HOME MOVIES. Enclose stamped addressed envelope with your letter to Editor, Home Movies, 553 So. Western Ave., Los Angeles 5, Calif. Reloading Magazines (G. M. Smith, Los Angeles, Calif.) O — I have a Revere 8 mm. magazine camera for which l have been unable to buy black and white film. Wcndd it be possible, should 1 eventually be lucky enough to buy a magazine of 8 mm. film, to have the film processed, and retain the empty magazine so 1 could re-load it myself with bulk film? Is double 8 mm. filtn any different than 1 6mm. filtn? Is there any supply house who could re-load the magazine for me? A — Eastman Kodak Company does not return empty 8mm. film magazines, does not recommend that they be reloaded by the individual with his own film because of the difficulty usually encountered in loading the magazines properly. However, this has been done by some amateurs, but we do not know how they came by the empty magazines. Double 8mm. film is the same stock and width as 16mm., however it is double perforated to take the 8mm. camera sprockets. Regular 1 6mm. film would not work in your camera. We know of no one offering to re-load 8mm. film magazines. 8mm. Editor (Nathan Rosen, Bronx, N. Y.) Q — Can you supply instructions for making a workable 8 mm. movie editor? A — Such a device was illustrated and described on page 64 of the February, 1946 issue of Home Movies. Extra copies are available at 2 5c each. We have no other instructions available at this time. Surplus Film (Ellsworth L. Palmer, San Antonio, Tex.) O — There appears to be a lot of surplus movie film on the market, much of it regular negative film, or so it appears to me. Can this film be properly reversed, or does all movie film come in the class of negative or positive? 1 was under the impression that there were three classes of film: negative, positive, and reversal. Am I right? Why do some advertisers make the claim that surplus film is ” regular reversal type” film? A — There are three kinds of movie film available, as you state. It behooves the buyer of "surplus” film to beware and make sure he is getting genuine reversal film when that is what he asks for. There are many reliable dealers handling surplus film who are labeling their product properly. If the film you purchase proves otherwise, do not hesitate to call upon the seller to make good or refund your money. Regarding the negative film, it can be reversed satisfactorily. 8mm. Frame Enlargements (Austin F. Barr, Jr., White Hall, Ark.) Q — Why can’t 8 mm. frames be enlarged to greater than 1 inch by l /z inches if 8 mm. movies can be screened as large as 30 inches by 40 inches? A — They can. Satisfactory enlarged prints of 8mm. film frames are regularly being made up to 2 /z by 3 */4 inches in size for reproduction in this and other magazines. Much of the quality depends upon the enlarging equipment. You should be able to make good frame enlargements using an ordinary photo enlarger. Special Effects (George J. Freije, Cohoes, N. Y.) O — Recently I saw the movie "It Had To Be You,” starring Ginger Rogers. In one scene they were showing home movies and when they stopped the projector for a still picture, the image was as bright as when the film was running. Now 1 have a 16mm. projector and when 1 project a still picture, it is never as bright and sharp as ivheti the film is running. Why is this? A — What you saw in the Ginger Roger’s movie was undoubtedly the result of some highly perfected optical printing effects. Actually the studio camera did not shoot the projector projecting a picture. Instead the illusion of a projected picture was done either by background projection on a translucent screen, or by optically printing in the picture on the movie screen, a specialized laboratory process not available to the movie amateur. When the picture was to appear as a still, the one frame was merely repeated in the printing for the desired number of frames, anfd therefore at the same brilliancy. When you project a still with your machine, a film protecting device called • Continued on Page 301