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• Fig. 1 — Novel editor constructed by author which includes rewinds, splicer and a filmviewer that projects film image on ground glass screen.
A WAR-TIME EDITIIG BOARD
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HOW that many important cine accessories are unavailable because of war restrictions placed upon their manufacture, building our own gadgets assumes greater importance as one of the most enjoyable phases of our hobby. Fortunately, most of us still have materials in our garage or workshop junk piles with which to make a camera gadget or an accessory for titling or editing our films.
Perhaps the most popular cine accessory, based upon one recent survey, is the complete editing board with rewinds, splicer and most important of all — a good film viewer. Several such editors are, or have been, on the market for some time. The movie amateur who may be unable to buy one at this time can easily make a satisfactory editor that will serve his purpose by following the plans and instructions given here.
Total cost of this editor can be as little as $2.00, depending of course, upon the materials already available, how much you may want to "fancy" it up, and whether or not you will use your projector lens in viewer unit. Inasmuch as most readers probably have a splicer, details for constructing the home made splicer shown in illustration of editor above will be omitted here.
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The baseboard should be about n"x 32" — uprights %"x4"> strengthened by backing them up with a small piece of %" stock. The main upright A should be about 13" high. Mount the reel spindles near the left edge, as shown — one on the bottom just high enough to clear a 400 ft. reel, and one near the top. The small upright B which forms rewind at left is 5" high and the spindle is mounted in the center high enough to clear a 400-ft. reel.
The spindles are made from square headed bolts 5 / i6"xzY2". The heads are sawed off, leaving the shoulder. Screw on two nuts far enough so that a reel will just run freely between them and the shoulder. The two nuts act as spacers to line reel up with the film aperture.
Half way between the two reels on the tall upright, fasten a piece of strap iron C about 12 inches long and bend in about 3 inches on the end at a 45 degree angle to support the viewer.
The viewer is made by fashioning
a piece of tin to hold a ground glass or frosted celluloid screen D, backed by a metal mirror E set at 45 degrees. This mirror should be of polished stainless steel or chromium. A glass mirror will create a double image. Piece of ground glass can be obtained from any glass store or photographic dealer.
Cover the top and bottom of the triangular shaped holder and paint the inside black to kill unwanted light reflections. To further cut down unnecessary reflections and increase brightness of viewer screen image, solder a flared piece of tin around the border of the screen. Paint the inside black. Bend a piece of tin around the strap iron support and solder it to back of the viewer box to serve as a mount for the viewer. After the viewer is adjusted so that lens throws a picture squarely on the screen, the tin mount should be crimped to lock it in that position.
On a level with the strap iron which holds the viewer and on the extreme right side of the tall upright, fasten the
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