Home Movies (1942)

PAGE 436 HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER New Features for Your Filmo • If you want features oflfered by newest Filmo models which your dealer can't deliver immediately, chances are that B&H craftsmen can add them to your present Filmo Camera or Projector. Xew "Modernization Folders" give details and costs. Ask your dealer or write, stating your Filmo model. Use This Timely NEW SERVICE • If you own a Bell & Howell Camera or Projector, you have something that might be difficult to replace now. So you'll want to take especially good care of it. Uo this with assurance and economy by using our new Standard-Price Sen ice Plan. See your dealer or write for prices on the three classes of our new, economical, maintenance and repair service. Bell & Howell Company, 1825 Larchmont Ave., Chicago; New'i'ork; Holh-wood; Washington, D. C; London. Established 190'. PRECISION-MADE BY 8MM. KODACHROME TRAVEL FILMS 16MM. SUPERB FILMS IN GLORIOUS COLOR "WAIKIKI HULA GIRLS." filmed in Hawaii. Tou will be delighted. Color Sample for 10c in coin, and complete lists. A 4 ft. gmm. or 5 ft. 16mm. color strip for projection, $1.00. We offer hundreds of tine film subjects for grown-ups; for children; color, black and white, silent or sound. Not to be confused with cheap toy films. MOVIE TITLES ARE EASY TO MAKE CINE-KODAK POSITIVE TITLE FILM— frscored. Speed H in, Phot.^fl'^vi Light. Laboratory Packed. Dbl. S— 33 ft. 6.5c; 100 ft. $1.4.5; 400 ft. $5.00; Sgl. 8—33 ft. 4.5c: 100 ft. $1.00: 400 ft. $3.50; 16mm. 100 ft. Sl-10: 400 ft. $4.40. Clear. Purplehaze, Tellow. Bed. Amber, Special Blue — ^Also DuPont Lavender, Light Amber. Smm. Pink. CAMERA SPOOLS WITH CANS— Each Double 5 50c T'nivei Single 8 15c Keystnne Dbl. 8 _50c Keystone Single 8 45c EXTRA CAN'S. Double Smm and Single 8 size_05e 100 ft. and 50 ft. 16mm 10c 4'"iO ft. size 50c Title InstriKtions Free with Film Orders Cash. Check or M. O. for quick service. Add 25c for Special Delivery. Overpayments refimded or credited. No stamps, please. MISCELLANEOUS BAIIA Precision All-Meial Smm. Film Slitter_$2.75 FOTOFADE DTE for mating Chemical Fades— 1.25 FOTOFADE WLPE-OFF TAPE, per roll .60 CIXETINT5, Set 6 Colors with Instructions 3.25 DuPONT VISCOSE SPONGES, each .35 HOilE MOVIES. Back Issues, 1537-38 .15 Nt all mrn-.hs in any year. 1940-41-42 .30 TITLE DEVELOPER, tubes, each make 16 oz— .15 HTPO rrsiNG BATH, tubes, each make 16 oz. .15 PARTY RECORDS — Something New in Adult Entertainmen;. Also RECORDINGS XIADE TO ORDER — Mu=ic and S"und Effect Records for H-me M-t-Ties. Phone Lincoln 1207 W. STUART BUSSEY FILM LAB. 17 E. ST. OSEPH ST. INDIANAPOLIS. IND. GRADUATE TO A Scemann unity of the war — the "oneness" of the struggle. Scenes of severe air-fighting are shown around the vital outposts at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, Port Moresby, New Guinea, and Darwin, Australia. The fury of the Jap attacks on these strategic points shows their importance as military' bases. As the coverage of the global conflict continues, we gain insight to the never-ending Battle of the x^rbntic. Ships go down — too many of them for comfort — but we see also the steadily tightening measures of counter warfare, from giant convoys to depthbombing patrol planes. Xe.xt reviewed is war on the home fiont. '^"ar Production Board Chairman Nelson gives a grim warning that we are not yet doing our best. There are glimpses of just a few of the weapons that soon will make our enemies sing a different tune. Tanks in mass production. Gigantic seaplanes take the air. The new Army Commando Planes to carr)' air-borne infantr)' and even Jeeps and artillery! New Liberty ships slide down the ways in ever increasing numbers. New fighting vessels are launched. The scene shifts to our neighbors to the south. Mass demonstrations hail the entry of Brazil into the war — another link in the United Nations' chain! Amazing action shots are seen of Russia engaged in her life-and-death struggle against the ruthless invaders. Russia fights on, adding new leaves to her laurels and gaining precious time for her allies to mount an offensive. England's Churchill flies to Moscow for a series of vital conferences with Stalin. The prelude to the second-front offensive which must come is seen in the e^er-growing strength and fury of the R. A. F. attacks on Occupied France and Nazi Germany. American bombers participate! Then the daylight Comr-'pndo and American Ranger raid on Dieppe, France is shown, the real tipoff to the serious business ahead. Other as yet un-announced last-minute shots to reach Castle offices complete this histor c moving picture. These films will be the "collector's items" of the future. dn my. film win . . . rl*6 BfVOlT lOUirVMO • Continued from Page 42 y interrupted by frequent parting of splices. It is unfair, of course, to espect the judges to patch films as they review them and the interruptions thus caused detracted from the films' appeal. In addition to the above faults in use of picture making equipment, many pictures failed because of lack of continuity, bad sequencing, or inadequate titling and editing. Outstanding perhaps, was the lack of close-ups in many fi.lms — pictures would begin, roll on, and end all in long shots without a single long or medium shot cut in to emphasize important points. Vith one picture in particular, its success depended upon a surprise twist in the final scene. Yet this scene was played in a medium shot instead of the tight closeup that would enable spectators to catch the gag instantly to make it successful. Inadequate or just poor titling continues to be the one big stumbling block of many amateurs. Lack of sufficient descriptive titles tops the list of shortcomings, with poor title composition ne.xt. Technical quality of titles, surprising enough, was considerably better than in previous years, proving that amateurs are learning /x>Jf to make titles. Many, however, tired easily; made a main. end. and possibly one or two sub-titles for their films, and called it a day. This criticism applies, of course, where the film definitely needed more titles to explain the picture and make it more coherent. Many contestants need to study more the art of composing a descriptive or spoken title, to understand the magic which well-worded titles impart to a picture. "WTiite Waters" which placed first among the documentary films and received the achievement award for titling is a splendid example of fine title composition. The captions aroused interest in the picture at once and held it until the final scene. Many contestants, especially those who submitted travel and vacation films, failed to maintain interest in their pictures through the medium of sequencing built on patterns of long, m.edium and closeup shots. Behind this fault, of course, was the lack of forethought in planning a filming expedition. In many films, there were shot after shot of scenic vistas, but few interest-holding sequences of people doing things within the scenes. By neglecting the human interest angle and failing to inject interesting shots of subjects close to everyday life, these filmers left out the real motivating factors of their pictures. Last and no least important, many pictures lacked a general theme. Obviously these films were not planned as contest entries at the time they were photographed, but were sent in later after the whole had been spliced together and titled. Here, drastic cutting and retitling would have done wonders. There were several entries in the contest run