Home Movies (1943)

HOME MOVIES FOR JANUARY PACE 19 till WORKSHOP tmJ§ah tricki & THUMB SCREW REINFORCINGSTRIP HOLE TO FIT TRIPOD TOP BOOM aid, using wood instead of scarce metal materials. Select a piece of spruce or other material i /4"xi Yz" for the boom. Reinforce this by nailing a strip of %" plywood, i Yz" wide, on edge on top of boom strip. Device for coupling boom to light standard and which will permit radial adjustment as well as shortening or lengthening of boom, is shown in detail in sketch. All pieces are made of wood. Necessary hardware consists of two bolts and wing nuts and one set screw. A is tilt top unit through which boom slides. Bolt and wing-nut at top provide means of locking boom in place. Wing nut AA provides for radial adjustment of boom. B is block which fits tripod or light stand and to which unit A is attached by means of bolt and wing-nut AA. C shows cross section of boom and reinforcing strip. — C. M. DeLattder, Holliday's Cove, West Va. Tripod Stabilizer Having occasion to shoot a lot of movies from grandstands and similar close quarters, I have built a simple stabilizer for my tripod as pictured here. The stabilizer rests on the floor. Tripod legs are inserted in the holes and locked securely to the stabilizer by means of the cleats held in place by wing-nuts and bolts. I sit with my legs wrapped around the tripod legs and my feet on the stabilizer, when shooting from a grandstand, thus providing a rock steady support for my tripod-mounted camera. Stabilizer was constructed as follows: An equilateral triangle was cut from a piece of %" plywood, each side being 12" in length. At each corner, holes were drilled to fit tripod legs. Measuring in 1 Ya" from each hole, another Ya" hole was drilled. These accommodated the quarter-inch bolts and wing nuts which secure the wooden cleats for each leg as pictured. — R. M. Gridlcy, Beaver, Penna. Home-Made Reflectors In spite of priorities, those conical shaped metal reflectors painted white on the inside and green outside, are still available from electrical and hardware stores and in some dime stores. These may be rigged up to serve as suitable reflector units for photofloods as follows: A suitable low standard may be made from wood, instead of metal, as shown in sketch. Two pieces should be cut from pine or plywood. One piece A is attached to the reflector by means of screws; the piece B serves as the upright, being attached to section A by means of a short bolt and wing-nut. Where light is to be used at low levels, a wooden base may be added to the support. Where light standards or tripods are to be used, reflectors may be fitted to them by drilling a hole 2" in depth up through bottom of section B. This permits unit being placed over top of trpiod or light standard. Light socket is added to the reflector by means of the usual brass fixture col &kortcut£ contributed by, Cine bug* lar which is available wherever the re-flectors are sold. — H. R. Schmidt, Chicago, III. Out-dated Film Unexposed, out-dated reversal cine film may be restored and made usable with satisfactory results by placing the film in its original package in an electric refrigerator and leaving it there for three days. Restoration lasts for about thirty days during which time the film must be used or again subjected to the refrigeration process. Positive film may be treated in the same manner. Also speed of positive film may be increased approximately one stop by giving it the ice box treatment. — James Griggs, Orange, N. J. Dual Turntables I utilized a discarded console type rndio cabinet for my dual turntables, placing one turntable over the other, as pictured here. Cabinet contains amplifier, which was attached beneath top shelf or immediately beneath the top turntable. Panel containing switches, faders, etc., was mounted adjacent to this. There is a pilot light over each turntable. — Bob Mayne, Muskegon, Mich.