Home Movies (1943)

HOME MOVIES FOR OCTOBER PACE 333 chat the reproducing optical system must also be adjusted to this fine dimension. Sixteen millimeter sound film travels at the rate of 7.2 inches per second at 2.4 F. P. S. speed — less than half as fast as 35mm. sound film. It is obvious, therefore, that the recording frequency is going to suffer some due to this slower travel of film past the recording light slit. The highest frequency that can be recorded on 16mm. sound track is said to be 3,600 cycles, or roughly half of that which can be recorded on the 35 mm. track. Nevertheless, the average 1 6mm. sound track today is capable of rendering excellent reproducing quality. We now come to the still smaller, slower traveling 8mm. sound film which moves through the recorder at the rate of only 3.6 inches per second — one-half the speed of 16mm. sound film. Based upon the same figures used for both 35mm. and 16mm. sound film, the top recorded frequency obtainable on 8mm. sound film would be 1,800 cycles which, even for voice reproduction, is very unsatisfactory when we consider that your telephone will pass up to 2,400 cycles per second. There is, of course, the possibility of reducing the light slit width and raising fidelity to something approaching that of 1 6mm. sound film at a premium of increasing considerably the cost of the optical system of both recorder and reproducer. -Movie 0/ the yiionth . . • Continued from Page 31S grettable that space does not permit setting down here the entire recorded narrative so ably spoken by a friend of Mr. Bohse, Dr. H. Eugene Wells. The picture opens in accompaniment with the recording playing a Beethoven melody. As the foreword fades from the screen, the narration begins: "In a rolling hill country of Kentucky, on the edge of the Blue Grass region, lies the first great shrine of Abraham Lincoln. The old Sinking Spring farm on which he was born on February 12, 1809, is on an old road which led to the Ohio and to the old buffalo and Indian trails, later to become the famous western trails to Oregon and Santa Fe." Following this are colorful scenes of the rolling hill country of Kentucky roamed by Abe Lincoln in his boyhood. The river where he fished and played, the farmyard, the cabin which was his early home are pictured. Then follows scenes of the magnificent Lincoln memorial which now houses the original log cabin that was Lincoln's birthplace. Thereafter Bohse's camera progresses along the route followed by Lincoln's father and mother in moving from Kentucky to Illinois, and recorded every historical landmark and monument that has since been preserved or erected to commemorate the life of this great American family. Bohse uses a lad to symbolize Lincoln as a boy in picturing many of the scenes of his early youth, and shows him fishing or idling beside the lazy stream that still flows as it did over a hundred years ago. The film continues with views of the grave of Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hank Lincoln, the Lincoln Memorial bridge in Illinois, Clark Memorial, Lincoln's Coles County Farm, the town of New Salem, early settler's cabins in New Salem, Henry Onstott's cabin — abode of the friendly cooper, Offut's log cabin store where Lincoln first worked, the home of Dr. Allen whose ideas greatly influenced Lincoln, and of many other scenes too numerous to describe in this limited space. The closing sequence pictures Lincoln's tomb in Oakridge cemetery, followed by a magnificent shot of what is probably the most famed statue of Lincoln. Then, superimposed over this, the American flag waving in the breeze as the narrative ends with these words: "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Qet T)ho£e Qrid Shot* • Continued from Page ) i 5 game is filmed with the camera set at a high point in the stadium. If you succeed in getting on the field with your camera, some unusual shots can be captured by using the telephoto lens. With the camera set low and focused on a play that will bring the players rushing toward you on the next signal, a telephoto can make such a shot appear as if it were taken with camera only a few yards from the line of scrimmage! This is how those vivid action stills are made by press photographers for newspapers. The movie maker with less limited film supply will probably want to shoot the entire game, plus the added reaction and atmosphere shots suggested here. 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