Home Movies (1943)

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Randolph St. Dept. 6-HM Chicago. Illinois GLAMOUR^ GIRL MOVIES!;?"'^ r'LMNC0Y S Box 2IHM Ithaca, N. Y. NEW! Newsreel No. 4 featuring beautiful majorettes! 50 ft. 8mm.. Special, $1.00 I (Reg. $2.00). 100 ft. 16mm.. >$2.50 (Reg. $4.00) Sample I cut and lists, 10c. BACK ISSUES The HOME MOVIES issues you missed contain much valuable movie making information you need. We can still supply a limited number of hack issues at original single copy price —25 c^nts. ORDER TODAY. HOME MOVIES 6060 SUNSET BLVD. HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. ing the shot. Shooting out of doors, you will have to watch the direction of your light as the sun changes position. Animation and single-frame photography is a tedious and lengthy process and you may find it experient to so mount your miniature stage that it may be revolved in order to keep it facing the sun throughout the day. Tinted Titles (N. Bostwick, Bayonne, N. J.) Q: I'm interested in the economical method of making titles for Kodachrome films by shooting them on black and white positive film, then coloring the titles to harmonize with the color shots with which they are to be spliced. Please advise how I can color the titles myself. I've heard of some tints manufactured by Edwal for this purpose. A: Edwal Fototints may be used to add color to black and white films and to tint black and white titles for Kodachrome movies. The process is very inexpensive and you will find it much cheaper to make titles for your color films in this way than using the more expensive and increasingly hard-to-get color film. Most photo dealers carry Edwal Phototints in stock or you may write direct to Edwal Laboratories, Inc., 732 Federal St., Chicago, 111. cAmateur 3dm • • • • Continued from Page 170 paper sack, they laze about a picturesque brook, fishing, wading and playing. The dog is forever finding the boys' hidden lunch bag and stealing a sandwich. Boys find frogs, fry frog legs, bake potatoes in fire, then go for a swim, fish some more — all the nostalgic pastimes of youth. In reviewing this picture, we find a beautifully photographed film that lacks only the slow, lazy tempo so necessary to imply the nostalgic mood intended. Little intimate bits of action should have been caught by the camera in closeup to build greater interest. For instance, in the fishhook baiting scenes, it is not immediately apparent what the boys are about. Also, it would have been more effective to show closeups of the bag of lunch frequently to reveal exactly how much damage the dog was inflicting upon it each time he ferreted it out from a new hiding place. Perhaps a closeup of the dog actually eating one of the sandwiches would have conveyed the idea more vividly. But then, perhaps, that is all the lunch the boys actually had with them the day the scenes were filmed. A little more cohesion in the story might make this a potential Movie of the Month. J\ead( er { Reloading Magazine Sirs: D. W. Lineberry, in "The Reader Speaks," March 1943 issue, tells how to reload 8mm. film magazines with title film. Would appreciate your advice as to whether or not 16mm. film magazines are similar in construction and if Lineberry's instructions also apply to reloading 1 6mm. magazines. — Maxwell Goodsitt, New York, N. Y. • Construction of 16mm. film magazines differs from the eights. Readers who have reloaded 16mm. magazines successfully are invited to offer suggestions through this column. — Ed. Sound For Eights Sirs: Why doesn't someone design an alteration kit to convert 8mm. projectors for sound so that we, too, may project sound movies along with our silent films? Enclosed is a sketch which suggests enlarging 8mm. film to 10mm. in width, allowing an extra 2mm. for sound track. On my Revere projector, one would need only to remove the flanges on one side of the upper and lower sprockets and alter film gate slightly to accommodate the extra width of the sound film. Of course, a faster mechanism would be needed to provide the 24 f.p.s. speed. But this should be relatively simple. — Rollin D. Schreffler, Cleveland, Ohio. • You may be interested to know that one amateur we know has already produced successful sound tracks on 8mm. film. The picture area is reduced, as with 1 6mm., and a variable area sound track runs between picture area and sprocket holes. Watch for complete story of this far-reaching amateur development in the July issue. — Ed. amera • Continued from Page lyS empty camera and learn how to improve their picture making; but scores have proven it can be done. This month's project on improving camera viewpoints should add further to their skill; and if your camera technique needs polishing and you have not yet joined our army of filmless practice "Projecteers" we suggest you start this month and work back to previous practice projects outlined in earlier issues.