Home Movies (1943)

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The Exposition should be open from noon to midnight to the public and with admission free. Curtain off a portion of the hall and at regular intervals show members' best pictures. Outside the entrance to the curtained section, conspicuously display a program giving the time of each performance and the title of the picture to be shown. Show only one picture at each performance. Do not repeat pictures, except that afternoon showings may be repeated in the evening. If pictures are good, it will hold those in attendance. Use a loud speaker for making announcements. Between announcements play soft background music. This is the club's opportunity to obtain additional members. So make good use of it. December — Annual Banc/ net. At the annual banquet install new officers for the coming year at which time they should announce their committee appointments. This is also the time to award prizes to winners of the annual contest. Officers should make their annual reports during the dinner. If the Club maintains a film library, it is a good idea to take some pictures during this evening. They can be edited later and added to the film library as a portion of the history of the Club. Such pictures are fine program material for showing at the "Open House" meeting in January. Thus the club's year is completed • Continued from Page )22 which compares the variable area sound tracks of both i6mm. and 35mm. sound film. If the film travels too slow for the sound frequency to be fully recorded, what happens is that there is insufficient spacing between the 'lines" — the frequency registration does not stand out clear and distinct — and when the sound track is reproduced in the projector, the sound is reduced to what resembles a hiss. Another important factor always to be considered in sound on film recording is the width of the line registering in the sound track. Referring again to the penmanship exercises, it will be clear that if nib of the pen used in making the strokes is wide, there will be less lines made within a given space than if a fine pointed pen is used. The thinner the transcribed line, therefore, the more lines will be recorded within a given area. The width of the line on the sound tiack depends upon size of the slit in the recording mechanism which admits with a continuous program which logically progresses from start to finish and is of interest to all members. For the Membership Committee that actively goes after prospective members, here is an added suggestion: At the "Open House" meeting in January, ask everyone attending to write their name and address on a slip of paper as they arrive. Use these slips in drawing for a door prize during the evening. The slips can then be checked with the membership list and all non-members names and addresses can be given to the Membership Committee. Amateur movie makers, as with other hobbyists, naturally gravitate toward some point affording opportunity to talk, eat, breath and sleep their hobby with others similarly inclined. Toward this end, it is every club's responsibility to arrange a definite program well in advance of every meeting to spark the interest of its members. A general program for the entire year, as outlined here, can be mimeographed or printed and given to each member at the first club meeting in January or whenever the club's fiscal year begins. This frequently saves the loss of a member by bringing him back to some particular meeting after several months' absence. Often members who miss a few meetings never return. A good club program, however, will usually bring them back, and then it is up to the committee to "sell" the club and its activities so completely they become permanent, active members again. Sound 3or 8mm. 3iL m • • • the recording light beam to sound track or the film. The light slit in the average 35 mm. S. O. F. recorder is about 1 /16th of an inch wide by .0013 of an inch in height. At the rate 35mm. sound film travels past the recording light — 1 8 inches per second — the film has a capacity for registering 13,800 lines by the light slit. Of course, these lines must be spaced an equal distance apart, so we consider one half of 13,800 or 6,900 — the number of lines that give acceptable recording within an 18 -inch length of 35mm. sound film. These 6,900 lines or 6,900 cycles per second become the maximum that can be registered in this area without getting into trouble. A frequency of 6,900 cycles per second is considered capable of very good fidelity in sound on film recording. In 1 6mm. sound on film recording, the light slit is reduced to less than half the height of the 35 mm. slit — about .oooj of an inch which is cutting things down pretty fine when one considers