Home Movies (1942)

HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER PACE 439 Movie amateurs will find further assistance in selecting a library of records in the many books available describing the moods and content of classical music. An example is Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, also Grove's Dictionary. In addition to musical recordings, sound effect recordings are also available— many of them from musical dealers or directly from makers of records. Any home movie that is filled with action will be the more realistic when screened if recorded sound effects are also added to the presentation. Combination phonograph recorders have now become so popular and inexpensive that many amateurs have availed themselves of the opportunity to make complete recordings for their films on this equipment, combining background music, narrative dialog and sound effects in one recording. With priorities, however, causing recording equipment to become scarcer every day, most amateurs must be content with playing musical recordings with their films for the duration. But the skill they will acquire in this comparatively new phase of their hobby will better prepare them for the wider field of sound for home movies that is certain to open up for them after the war. Salvaae ikoie ihoti • Continued from Page 428 intensifier known that will not change color of the image on reversal or positive film. It gives proportional intensification and is easily controlled by varying time of treatment: Stock Solution No. 1 Avoirdupois Metric '■'Silver Nitrate,— 2 Ozs. 60.0 grams Distilled Water to make 32 Ozs. i.o liter • Store in brown bottle. Stock Solution No. 2 Sodium S u 1 ■ phite, desiccated, (Eastm a n Kodak Co.) — 2 Ozs. 60.0 grams Water to make.— 32 Ozs. i.o liter Stock Solution No. 3 Hypo yYz Ozs. 105.0 grams Water to make. 32 Ozs. 1.0 liter Stock Solution No. 4 Sodium S u 1 phite, desiccated, (Eastm a n Kodak Co.) /4 Oz. 1 5.0 grams Elon 345 grains 24.0 grams Water to make.. 96 Ozs. 3.0 liters Prepare the intensifier for use as follows: Slowly add i part of solution No. 2 to I part of solution No. i, shaking or stirring to obtain thorough mixing. The white precipitate which appears is then dissolved by the addition of i part of solution No. 3. Allow the resulting solution to stand for a few minutes until clear. Then add, with stirring, 3 parts of solution No. 4. The intensifier is then ready for use and the film should be treated immediately. The degree of intensification obtained will depend upon the time of treatment which should not exceed 25 minutes. Examine the film closely at frequent intervals to determine when proper de gree of intensification has been reached, then remove the film from the solution and immerse it for at least two minutes with agitation in a plain 30 per cent hypo solution. Follow this with a thorough washing in cold water, either running or changed at frequent intervals. Do not allow a stream of water to play on the film at any time as this will damage the emulsion. After the film has been thoroughly washed subject it to drying by wiping off, with a chamois or viscose sponge, all excess water. Suspend film where a flow of air will complete the drying process. Intensification seldom gives as much improvement in a film as is necessary to make a good shot out of a bad one, and unless the shot is an important one which cannot be retaken, it is hardly worth the trouble. On the other hand an underexposed shot, unless it is so dark as to be pretty well opaque, can usually be thirmed out suflSciently to be worth the trouble of reducing it. continuity. . • . • Continued from Page 421 an interesting print. With the cinefilmer, he must make his shot right at the beginning. And certainly the widespread practice of still photographers in cropping their shots in the final printing stage proves the theory that excluding extraneous subject matter from a scene and concentrating on the main subject or subjects, makes the most interesting picture. Once the movie amateur understands the importance of ultimately accenting his pictures with closeups, he will begin to understand the fundamentals of good movie editing and will, as a result, Give Your Audience a Laugh . . vfith "Flip the Frog" Cartoons In 16mm. Sound "Spice" your movie program with the amusing antics of jolly "Flip." 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