Home Movies (1943)

PACE 372 HOME MOVIES FOR NOVEMBER HOW TO MAKE HOME MOVIE GADGETS HOME MOVIES MAGAZINE SERIES Do you get a lot of pleasure from building your own home movie gadgets? Then here is the very book you want. Chock full of ideas for gadgets for 8mm. and 16mm. cameras and projectors— things easy for any amateur to make. HOME MOVIE GADGETS and how to make them $400 PER COPY postpaid Nearly 100 pages profusely illustrated with photos and sketches telling how to make gadgets and accessories for cameras; for making wipe-offs and fades; title making; editing and splicing; and a host of others. No theories — every gadget tested and proven by an advanced amateur. The plans and specifications of just one of the gadgets alone is easily worth the price of the book. Limited printing on first edition. Order Now! Ver Halen Publications 6060 Sunset Blvd. HOLLYWOOD 28 CALIFORNIA Men in uniform were admitted free. Others paid admission by purchasing var stamps. Lobby posters cried out: "Cheer yesterday's heroes and help the heroes of today!" "Hiss the villain! Buy war stamps 'til it hurts!" The club turned in a substantial amount of money from the stamp sales. The film program consisted of 16mm. prints of ' The Taking of Luke McVane," the two-fisted but misunderstood desperado of Chuckawalla valley; "Millie the Arcadian Maid" in which we see what happens when "sweet is the honeyed voice of praise upon the flattered ear;" and "The Race for Life," a do or die melodrama wherein the gal is tied to the railroad tracks before an onrushing train. Mabel Normand was the endangered heroine, Ford Sterling the dastardly villain, Mack Sennett the hero, and the Keystone cops and Barney Oldfield in his Stutz racer saved the situation in a fast paced, hair-raising finish. The film "Saved From Himself or the Curse of a Cigarette" suggested a theme for another old time movie party. Admission to this successful affair was by cigarettes — a pack per person deposited at the door. Proceeds went to the • Continued from Page 560 den this article with formulae. But please remember that the strong caustic developer recommended for the usual reversal process must not be used; that in its place an ordinary soft negative developer is substituted. After the negative image has disappeared in the reversal bath, there is the usual washing for five minutes followed by the usual ten per cent sodium sulphite bath in order to remove the yellow stains. Remember that the light is not switched on, as the exposure has already been made; and after the sulphite bath and a further wash of five minutes, you proceed to develop the printed image in an ordinary M. Q. developer and finally fix in hypo. The use of hypo strengthened with acid hardener is desirable. I will next set forth the advantages of this method which the reader may proceed to try for himself. The first method of control lies obviously in the first developing bath. By varying this, a soft or hard negative may be obtained. For instance, a plain Metol developer will give a soft image, and softer still it it is used at half strength. A more contrasty developer may be used composed mainly of hydroquinone ; and, of course, the negative can be developed to 1 low or high gamma according to the contrast required. With the normal re U. S. O. The theme movie was an old Brooklyn Film Production, the vintage of 1908! It related the terrible fate of the hero addicted to cigarettes! No matter what the subject, these humorous old time silent movies defy the ravages of time or public sophistication. They are incomparable in their ability to create friendships by introducing folks to each other as they hiss, 1 ;ugh and cheer together during screening of the films. Recently, some amateur exhibitors have augmented the showing of these films with the flashing on the screen of old time slide announcements as was the custom of theatres years ago. "Package left in lobby is leaking! Owner please come at once!" is text of just one of the gag slides used to get an audience in a mood for the motion picture program. Such old time movies are fun for everybody. To mother and dad, they bring back fond memories. For the younger generation who never saw such films before, they bring a new kind of hilarious entertainment. And to the advanced movie amateur, they offer serious study of many fine silent movie techniques that still apply to good amateur picture making today. \ ersal method, as opposed to the Jepson method, this is not possible because a strongly energized caustic developer must always be used in order to produce a heavy deposit. Even on positive stock (with which I experimented) there is practically no halation in such a thin negative. But a much greater degree of control can be exercised in the printing because by varying exposure, a light or a dark print may be made. The same control can be effected in the Jepson method during the last development which can be stopped after 2, 3 or 4 minutes, and the image then watched. Without sacrificing tonal quality, such a shortening of the final development in normal reversal technique is not possible. This is because the redevelopment has to be carried to completion, but in the Jepson method one is merely developing a print, and after the requisite minimum density is obtained, one can continue to build it up if he so desires. And now for a most interesting part of this process which enables the amateur to attempt compensation. It may happen that one-third of the film on the drum is underexposed and the rest normal. This underexposed portion, presuming that it is all together at one end of the drum, will result in a weaker negative requiring less exposure. Com J\lew J4ome J^ever^al Procete