Home Movies (1943)

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Satisfaction Guaranteed EDMUND SALVAGE COMPANY 27 West Clinton Avenue P. 0. Audubon New Jersey WESTERN AND HAWAIIAN SCENES AND MILITARY PLANES 504 EACH TOeae* KODACHROME TRANSPARENCIES Exclusive landscapes of great beauty and fidelity. ..the work of Mike Roberts and other distinguished color photographers! Reduced from original professional Kodachrome negatives. Write for folder listing all Wesco subjects, showing 12 in full color. WESTERN COLOR PRINT CO. 2134 Allston Way • Berkeley 4 • California CAMERA FILM 16MM. 100 FEET — $2.40 8mm. Double, 25 Feet — $1.25 PRICES INCLUDE PROCESSING 35mm. Bulk Film 10c Foot Including Developing (160 pictures) Min. Order 20 Feet Silly Symphonies, Charlie Chaplin and other features at per foot for complete subjects. Write for catalog of finished subjects. LIFE OF CHRIST— 8 REELS CROWN OF THORNS — 8 REELS ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA— 8 REELLS 16mm. Sound Prints $100.00 16mm. Silent Prints 75.00 8mm. Silent 50.00 STEEL REELS 400 feet, 16mm 35<! each. $4.00 Doz. 200 feet. 8mm 25<f each 400 feet. 16mm. cans 20C each, $2. D02. Best Welding Film Cement 20* Bottle EXHIBITORS FILM EXCHANGE 630 Ninth Ave. (Dept. H) Film Center Bldg..N.Y.C. ZENITH FILM RENTALS Our new 1944 Film Rental Catalog covering 8mm. silent and 16mm. silent and Sound subjects of every description is READY NOW. It is mailed FREE to any one within a radius of approximately 1000 miles from Chicago. ZENITH CINEMA SERVICE 3252 FOSTER AVENUE CHICAGO, ILL. ZJ/te "liniiklncf ZJouch " FOR AIL WELL-EDITED MOVIES CRAIG FOTOFADE MAKES SMOOTH FADES AND WIPES lilt. $1.75 Complete Kit. $1.75 CRAIG MOVIE SUPPLY CO. Loi Angtltt ' iwotll* • San fronc/tco can be overcome through re-design of the lamp compartment. There is no reason why the lamphouse cannot be closed at the top and louvres provided at back and one side to permit escape of heat forced out by the motor driven fan. These two features, if incorporated in post-war projectors, will impart a more modern, stream-lined design certain to appeal to the experienced projector owner who remembers how multiple convolutions, nooks and crannies attract deposits of dust and oil, aging appearance of the machine. I want my post-war projector equipped with a constant speed motor, or lacking this, some other means that will assure projector running in near synchronism with my turntables. This can be done by providing a small stroboscope disc on one of the film sprockets and adding a small neon glow lamp nearby to provide the pulsating illumination to check stroboscope speed. With the thousands of dual-turntables now in use providing musical background and sound effects for home movies, this is a feature no far-seeing manufacturer can overlook. I want my projector to be so designed that a small compact sound head can be added at any time to convert it to use with sound films. It follows, of course, that the projector manufacturer will market a simple sound conversion kit that may readily be attached by authorized service agents. Sprocket wheels on all silent projectors should be of the sound type, having teeth on one side only, to make unnecessary changing these parts when the sound head is added later. The film gates of some projectors are improperly designed, with the result that when a reel of film made up of a number of small spools of various makes of film, is screened, the varying thickness of film bases or the tendency of one brand of film to buckle, causes the film to appear temporarily out of focus on the screen. My next projector must have the pressure plate of the film gate operating against the film toward the lens. Thus the emulsion side will always remain on the same focal plane, and any unevenness or difference in film thickness will operate against that part of the gate facing the lamp house. M y present projector provides six points for lubrication, all indicated by tiny red dots opposite holes in the projector case at various points. One hole cannot be reached without either removing the lamp housing or using a curved oil can. Simplicity in the postwar projector calls for all points of wear to be serviced by oil tubes converging at a convenient point at top of projector case. Not only will this insure adequate lubrication of critical parts, but tend to encourage regular lubrication by virtue of the suggestion the conspicuous oil holes will always hold before the operator. Amateurs of long experience find a need to dispense with the annoyance of having their filming distributed over a great number of reels. The general desire is to use larger reels, requiring fewer changes during sceening of pictures. The post-war projector, both the eight and the sixteen, must provide for use of larger reels, either through extensions that may quickly be attached to the regular reel arms, or by providing greater length in the original arms. The old, toy-projector type of rewind system requiring switching of belts, must go. Rewinding of film must be accomplished by two operations: threading the film back on the top reel, and throwing a single switch that causes the film to quickly rewind. Also, the power transmitted to the rewinding mechanism should be fully strong enough to rewind a four or eight-hundred foot reel as easily as one of twohundred feet. The switch panel of the post-war projector should provide for controlling the motor, lamp, and house lights, with suitable plug-in connection provided in the projector for a lead line to one or more floor lamps. Control of room lights long has been a bugbear cf home movie showmen whose guests invariably try to help but usually succeed in bungling an otherwise well organized show. The centralized control panel is the answer to this problem. Control of the pilot light, too, should be automatic with operation of the projector starting button, so that as projector is started, the pilot is extinguished; and flashes on again automatically as the projector is stopped. But even with all these refinements, my post-war projector will not have attained the acme of perfection unless it includes a handsome cabinet into which it disappears almost magically when not in use. I visualize the projector of the future as a stream-lined, sound-proofed unit, mounted on a drop-head panel of an attractive chair-side cabinet, and operat SORRY! NO BINDERS it WE regret to inform our readers that the leatherette binders which we have regularly supplied for filing copies of HOME MOVIES are no longer available, and that none can be supplied for the duration — or until materials are again accessible to the manufacturer. In the meantime, we suggest that you carefully preserve each copy of HOME MOVIES to insure a complete, undamaged and unbroken file of your favorite hobby magaiine. —HOME MOVIES