Home Movies (1944)

PAGE 36 HOME MOVIES FOR JANUARY JIJULJUULSLSULSLSUUULJU^ Sdeai /< or Via co-u" ««"""" nrt* . 'i6* Movies of of Kiddies... will be better if you follow the filming ideas contained in this new 32-page booklet. Contains 50 separate ideas on how to film children— how to make home movies of your kiddies appealing and professional-like. It's the best 25 investment you can make! NOTE! Also in preparation is the third booklet in this series — "50 Ideas for Family Films." WATCH FOR IT! VER HALEN PUBLICATIONS 6060 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood 28 California iLQJLfiJLOJLJLILOJULQJLOJULiLJUL HAZE & TYPE A FILTER I CHROME LENS SHADE & I FILTER POUCH art still being supplied with the PB MOVIE FILTER KITS at $4.75 Available For All Popular 8mm. Movie Cameras From All Leading Camera Dealers or J«. 0 D . j. 1015 So. Grand Ave. fonder & Best Los Angeies, cut. MOVIES 1 SLIDES PALL COLOKS, Yosemlte. 50 ft. Kodarhrome, $9.00. or ar.y length desired at 16c ft. "Yosemlte National Park." 200 ft $36.00 ■'The Blooming De»ert." 200 ft $36.00 "PASADENA BOSK PARADE." 120 ft $18.00 "Canadian Rocklef," 400 ft $50.00 "Canadian Moose," 125 ft. I No titles) $18.75 "SoarlnK Se-a-Billl*" sequence, 30 ft $4.50 "<;oldeii-mantled Ground Squirrel," 50 ft $7.50 Guy 0. Haselton. 7936 Sta. Monica. Hollywood 46. Calif. WE HAVE 8MM. 16MM. FILM 100 ft. 16mm. ortho weston 6 $2.50 IG0 ft. 16mm. panchromatic weiton 64 $4.85 33 ft. double 88 panchromatic W. 24 $1.89 The»e prices include Free processing. Write for Free circulars HatlnK our Movie accessories, chemicals and hulk film. FROMAOER GENERA CO. DAVENPORT, IOWA Shoot Z)Ule£ on Positive 3ilm... • Continual from Pdgc 20 method for the amateur to use. Film cost is extremely low, as compared to reversal, and the procedure for lettering title cards is not complicated inasmuch as they may be lettered with pen and ink, typewriter, or by letter press. What many amateurs have yet to discover is that they can compose and letter a series of titles, then photograph and develop them the same evening in the space of a few hours when positive fi'm is used. Procedure for exposing positive film is little different from that required for reversal film, except that positive, being much slower, requires greater increase in exposure time. While tables are available showing the exposures to follow when shooting positive film under photoflood illumination, they are not always reliable for several reasons. First, the light intensity of photofloods decreases with age so that an exposure figure developed for use with new photofloods would not apply when photofloods are used where more than half of their rated life has been consumed. Also, position of lights affects light intensity, and the density of the paper used for the title cards and the color of the ink for lettering are important factors. The best practice to follow, therefore, is to make a series of tests — exposing a few frames of one title card at various exposures, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, etc., and then determine correct exposure from examination of the test strip after development. A short test strip of twelve to eighteen inches may be developed by hand in a glass refrigerator tray or other suitable receptacle within a few minutes. Necessary chemicals for the developing solution may be obtained at small cost from any photo supply store. Most of the positive film presently available comes in "laboratory packing" which means it is rolled in bulk and must be wound on a camera spool before use by the purchaser. Also, purchase price does not include developing as with reversal films. Where the amateur does not wish to develop his own, which, incidentally, is a simple process, there are many laboratories whose advertisements appear monthly in Home Movies who will render this service promptly and at low cost. For use in the camera, positive film must be wound upon a regular camera spool. To use a projection reel or other substitute is to court trouble. Spooling the film must be done in a darkroom, but fortunately because of its slow speed and inherent "color-blindness" it can be handled under a red safelight. The film should be wound upon the camera spool so that it may be threaded in the camera with emulsion side toward the lens. Correct method for winding is shown in the diagram (Fig. 1). End of film is inserted in core of spool with emulsion side in so that when film is fully spooled, the shiny surface is outside. Where it is desired to thread film in camera in daylight or under artificial illumination, it is necessary to add an opaque leader of sufficient length to give necessary protection to the raw film during threading operations. Otherwise, a leader is unnecessary, especially if test strips are to be made or only a few titles shot and detached from the supply spool and developed. Making positive titles excludes the use of highly ornate and colored title designs and backgrounds for the reason, already stated, that positive film does not record colors in relative gradations. For this reason, the positive title maker should stick to black and white, or shades of gray to secure contrast between title letters and background. The simplest titles will be lettered with black india ink on white cards. However, decorative effects can be obtained by using textured papers as well as wallpaper for the title cards, the pattern appearing in gradations of grey and black in the developed film. As this treatise is intended especially for those amateurs who never have attempted title making with positive film, it is proper that the old reliable method of lettering title cards with a typewriter be recommended. Title cards neatly typed are quite effective on the screen, shorten considerably the time required for making titles, and are the easiest for the average amateur to make. Even those who do not own a typewriter usually have access to use of one. Typed title cards, however, must be photographed at close distances — usually at six to eight inches — and involves use of the popular "typewriter" type of titler which provides the auxiliary lens required to enable camera to photograph sharply title cards at such short distances. Lacking a "typewriter" titler, of course, the amateur can still photograph the smaller typewritten cards — usually 3" by 4" in size — by providing a means for centering camera with title card and a suitable auxiliary lens in front of his camera lens. Typing should not be used for title composition on cards where the title area is greater than 3" by 4". The regu