Home Movies (1942)

PACE 416 HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER Its a BIG HIT m'fh P/iofv fvns/ THE NEW G-E PHOTO DATA BOOK (more fhan 50,000 of the 1940 edition in use) New 1942 edition, completely revised, now ready! 1 TELLS how to get more out of your meter for movies or "stills". SUGGESTS easy way to correct F-stop value for extreme closeups. EXPLAINS how to make "stills" by metered flash, and how to control background emphasis. # You'll like this handy guide to better pictures! Its 112 pages are full of practical picture-making tips, useful tables, essential technical data, and helpful suggestions covering all angles of blackand-white and color photography. Actual size, by 5 inches. Includes film speeds, movie-camera shutter speeds, developing formulas, correct flash exposures, paper and film speeds, filter factors, and other data essential to gor)d picture making. Fifty cents at your dealer's. General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y . * ★ ★ If your dealer cannot now supply you with a G-E exposure meter, here's the reason: Materials and facilities are needed to produce equipment for our armed forces and vital war industries Our efforts are being expended to speed VICTORY for the United Nations. We know you'll understand. The Reader Sound Fan We knoiv the response this reader will get from bis letter, for the fraternity of dabblers-in-sound has grown by leaps and bounds during the past six months: Dead Editor: I have been getting much "meat" out of Home Movies and I think my films the past year show much improvement over previous ones due to the tricks and hints picked up from your magazine. I have been experimenting with making recordings to go along with the showing of my films. These mainly consist of musical, sound effect and narrative with no attempt made at split-second synchronization. I would like to hear from other home movie fans who are dabbling along the same lines. I also have actual sound effects, musical themes and fanfares, etc., to exchange with other amateur recorders. — Milton R. Grady, 1820 2nd. Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. Titling Problems Here's an interesting comment from a reader that ought to bring interesting response from those amateurs who regularly film their own titles. Your comments and opinions on this question are invited: Gentlemen: In your September issue an article appears on the subject of titling, written by Stanley Andrews. In column 2, page 367, it is stated that • the distance from title card to the camera should be measured from title card to camera lens when an auxiliary lens is used. My optometrist, who is quoted as an authority on lenses by General Electric Science Forum, says that the measurement must be determined from title card to center of the concave side of the auxiliary lens instead of the camera lens. Who is right? — F. M. Spoonagle, AI plans. N. Y. Film Exchange There is little doubt but what other clubs will readily take advantage of the Seattle Movie Club's offer to exchange films. This is an activity that should be participated in by all responsible amateur clubs. Other clubs, willing to exchange or loan films, will always find these columns open to them: Gentlemen: The Seattle Amateur Movie Club is interested in extending its exchange list and would appreciate SPEiKS the names of two or three well established amateur clubs willing to send us one reel, either 8mm. or i6mm. per nionth in exchange for similar film from us. — W . B. Bowden, Secy. Swappers Gentlemen: I would like to contact someone who would film about 50 feet of 8mm. Kodachrome of Pittsburgh, Pa., and the Turnpike Highway for me. Would also like a few shots of Ticonderoga, N. Y., and a sunset at Burlington, Vt. Will shoot equivalent footage in this area in exchange. — Donald N. Walter, 714 Columbia St., Aurora, III Dear Sirs: Am anxious to obtain 8mm. Kodachrome pictures of relatives living in Trinidad, Colorado, and Portland, Oregon. Interested parties are urged to communicate with me at once. — Harry H. Dintelman, 14716 Lincoln St., Hariey, III. Dear Editor: I wish to contact a 1 6mm. Reel Fellow or other amateur filmer who can supply me with original Kodachrome footage of the following jfMaskan scenes: Mt. McKinley, midnight sun on the Yukon, midnight baseball games in Fairbanks, big game hunting, salmon in rapids, and views of Sitka, Wrangell, Metlakatla, Craig, Klawock and Kake. — /. Albert ParaJis, Jr., R. F., gg Spring St., Springfield, Mass. Gentlemen: Wish to contact Reel Fellows or other movie amateurs who may have made i6mm. movies of the parade of old hand pumper fire apparatus which was held in Boston about a year ago. — W. A. McDonnell, 1 53 1 Suitzer Aie., St. Louis. Mo. Gentlemen: I have a 100 ft. roll of 1 6mm. extra Kodachrome scenes of night life on Hollywood Blvd. before the Dim-out showing neon signs of Night Spots, Studios, Motorcycle Hill climb, etc. These are • all perfectly exposed extra shots that I cannot use in a reel that I am completing and could be used to advantage in some Amateur's Color News Reel. Will swap or trade for 1 6mm. Kodachrome shots of New York City, showing buildings, traffic, etc. — Lto Caloia, 14} W. Ate. li, Los Angeles, Calif.