Home Movies (1943)

HOME MOVIES FOR DECEMBER PACE 407 CUE WORKSHOP 9aj9et)> lrUki & BENT WIRE ROUND WOOD BLOCK R H SCREW lid, and a piece of round wood about 21//' or 3" in diameter and long enough to fit within the jar as shown. This round wooden piece serves as the developing drum for the film. So that it may be rotated, a length of heavy wire is driven into one end. After the lid — pierced in the center — is placed over the wire, the wire is bent to form a handle. An ordinary round-head wood screw is FREE TO READERS! For every idea submitted to The Experimental Cine Workshop and printed in the January issue, HOME MOVIES will award the contributor with a copy of HOME MOVIE GADGETS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM. This handsomely bound and profusely illustrated 90-page book replaces the customary award of projection reels for workshop suggestions for January only. This is your chance to acquire a copy of this book for your workshop library. Regularly selling for $1.00, it pictures and describes many helpful gadgets for the enterprising home movie hobbyist, tells how to make them, explains their use. If you are a home movie gadgeteer, submit a description of your gadget to HOME MOVIES. Simply describe it in your own words, and where possible, illustrate it with a simple sketch or photograph. Don't hesitate because you feel your idea hasn't merit. Let Home Movies' editors decide! inserted in center of bottom of round wooden piece as a bearing to ease the turning operation. To develop a short length of title film or to make a test strip, wind the film around the wooden block and secure erds with rubber bands. Place a small amount of the developing formula into the jam jar, then set the wooden block in the jar. Add enough of the solution to completely cover all of the film, screw lid on jar and agitate film by turning crank for required developing time. — Stanley Jepson, Bombay, India. Film Developer The accompanying diagram shows how to construct a complete home reversal or film developing outfit out of non-critical materials. All four units — base and standard, developing tray, developing reel, and drying rack — are made entirely of wood. The sketch is self explanatory, giving necessary dimensions except for the drying rack w hich can be made as large or as small as the amateur's requirements demand. The slots in the vertical uprights should be deep enough so that when axle of developing reel is lowered into them, the reel will extend down into the developing tray sufficiently to allow film to be adequately submerged in the developing or processing solutions. It is very important that the tray, (or trays, if more than one is built), the reel and the drying rack be coated with paraffine or painted with a good quality of acid-resistant paint to prevent saturation of chemicals and especially of hypo in the grain of the wood, shortcut* contributed by i inebugi where it might contaminate the developing solutions of subsequent processings.— Kenneth Albertson, Altoona, Pa. Title Liner-upper In assembling loose block letters on a horizontal title board, lining up the letters may be facilitated by fastening a rubber band around the title board ?nd using same as a guide line. As each line of type is completed, the rubber band is moved down to form the guide for the next and successive lines. Another use for the rubber band is to hold the title letters in place over night when an assembled title cannot be shot until the next day. Simply snap the band over the letters and they will remain undisturbed until the band is removed again. — Charles Bonnefield, Akron, Ohio. Light Unit Pictured is a heavy duty floodlight unit which I constructed from a single piece of sheet metal that cost but 80c. Cutting the metal to shape, I formed a cone 20" in diameter and soldered the seam. A beer can was soldiered at the • Continued on Page 42}