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HOME MOVIES FOR JANUARY
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WECENTLY it became the pleasure of my wife and I to entertain a group of friends at home. Although a game of bridge was scheduled, I wanted an excuse to screen a couple of films and also to do something a little different. Our friends had all seen my movies before, and to repeat a showing of them might prove a little monotonous.
While editing a reel of movies of these same friends made on an outing, I was examining the scenes rather carefully. Never before had I noticed what amusing positions these otherwise dignified friends of ours assumed when at play as revealed by individual frames of the film. This gave me the inspiration I needed for something different. I searched carefully through the reel of film to find the frame which pictured each member of the group in his most undignified or amusing pose. Then I made enlargements of these frames. The enlargement was a miniature. Thus, a figure standing was only three inches tall. I mounted the prints on stiff cardboard, then cut out the figures and
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mounted these on small blocks of wood to make them stand erect.
These miniature cutouts were used as place-cards at the snack table and what an uproar they created. Each one present got a big kick out of the ridiculous position portrayed by the miniature cutout of himself. As expected, the frame enlargements achieved their purpose. Everyone present insisted upon seeing the films from which the cutouts had been made.
To make an enlargement of a particular frame of film, it was first necessary to make a negative of it. Other movie amateurs who may have a photo enlarger for still photographs, will be able to use it for enlarging frames of their movie film, as I did. In the method used and illustrated here, I made an enlarged negative by placing the 16mm. film in a properly masked negative holder and projecting the image the size of a double frame of 35mm. film. To hold the 1 6mm. film in the negative carrier, I made a simple mask from two sheets of cardboard hinged together with ad
• Fig. I, showing position of 35mm. film holder on enlarger easel. Frame of 16mm. film to be enlarged is in position in negative carrier of enlarger.
hesive tape. In the center I cut a hole of the correct frame size with a razor blade. I next pasted two strips of thick paper onto the cardboard as a guide for lining up the film accurately with the frame hole. (This is shown in Fig. 2). To make the enlargement, film is inserted between the guides of the mask and the mask placed in the negative carrier of the enlarger. The mask holds the film flat, yet permits drawing it through the negative carrier to select various frames for printing.
The next problem was to provide means for holding a strip of 35mm. negative film on the enlarger easle in order to receive the single frame projection, and to so mask it that only an • Continued on Page )o
• Fig. 3 — By an ingeniou: method, several 6-frame strips of 35mm. film bearing 16mm. enlargement projections, may be developed at one time in minifilm developing tank.
• Fig. 2, showing mask and carrier for 16mm. film frame which fits negative carrier of enlarger. Magnifying glass is used to inspect film, also to check focus of projected image.