Home Movies (Jan-Dec 1948)

310 RCA Licensed High Fidelity 16mm Sound-On-Film Guaranteed One Year esigned in Hollywood for the discriminating movie maker Camera (less lens) priced from $1095.00, complete with amplifier, microphone, tubes, batteries, headphones and instructions. See your dealer or write today lor further information. Records talking-pictures in black and white or color. Completely silent in operation, self blimped; no noise for recording microphone to pick up. Veeder-Root geared reset footage counter Auto-Parallax View-Range Finder available. Synchronous motor driven. Rugged Auricon "Iron-Vane" sound track recording galvanometer, never needs adjustment. HOME MOVIES FOR JUNE I f o u n Brief News Items From The Editor's Desk Movies Replace Letters According to Claude V. Neuffer, a Portland, Oregon, cinefan who reports reading about it in the local Oregon Journal, Mrs. Lewis Best of Rockaway has a pen pal in Wisconsin and the two ladies have a novel way of advertising their native states. Mrs. Best said a large car parked near their place last summer, and a man and woman got out, ran down to the ocean and tasted it. Seeing Mrs. Best they waved to her and she walked down to the car to speak to them. During the conversation it was learned that these people, the Leland Planks, and Bests both owned home movie cameras and projectors. Since then they have been exchanging film, returning it to the owners after showing it at home to neighborhood friends. The Planks sent film of their trip through the country and of their native Wisconsin, and the Bests returned the favor by sending films of the Tillamook beaches and various parts of Oregon. ★ Bad News A recent Eastman Kodak report included, among other things, these facts: A shortage of 8mm. and 16mm. film continues despite ( 1 ) production of both sizes, especially of 8mm. film, is and for a long time has been greater than ever before; (2) the percentage of production increase for these films since the end of the war has been greater than for any other film line. The shortage of these films — 8mm. and 16mm. — is expected to last through the summer. ★ New Kodak Safety Film A new type film base, adopted by Eastman Kodak Company for manufacture of much of its "safety” motion picture film for cine cameras, was described last month before the national convention of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers. Essentially, the new film is made by retaining chemical "acetyl groups” which in the earlier process were washed away. Low shrinkage of the new safety base will keep the film free from buckle and the resulting in-and-out of focus images on the motion picture screen. Tensile strength is more like nitrate film than earlier safety film. Also, greater resistance to effects of moisture and humidity means less processing trouble and film distortion, it is said. New cements, manufactured especially for use with the new film, will also make satisfactory splices with the other types of safety film. ★ Color Film Correction To correct under-exposed scenes on Kodachrome or Ansco Color film, it is not possible to chemically reduce the film, as may be done with black-andwhite. However, Harry Hilfinger, of ESO-S, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., reports that similar results are accomplished for customers of their laboratories by making a duplicate copy of the color film at which time the printing light is increased so as to reduce in effect the maximum density and to clear the highlights for more satisfactory overall projection. ★ Motor Speed Change With the exhaustion of current stocks, the "A” models of the CineKodak Magazine 16 and Magazine 8 Cameras will be discontinued. In addition, the motor speeds at which the Magazine 1 6 operates will be changed. In the future these cameras will be available with only one set of standard speeds — 16, 24, and 64 frames per second for Cine-Kodak Magazine 16 Camera . . . and 16, 24, 32, and 64 frames per second for the Magazine 8. While no change can be made in the speed-control mechanism of the Magazine 8, the Kodak Repair Department will accept Magazine 16 Cameras for alteration to any three ordinary speeds. List price for this change, $5.2 5. AJUad! WITH this issue, the editor concludes nine years of association with Home Movies, having now resigned to assume editorship of another photographic publication. To my many friends and countless readers I wish to express my sincere thanks for your steadfast interest which has made Home Movies the leading publication in its field. To all you loyal readers I say, regretfully, aclios! — Arthur E. Gavin.