Home Movies (1944)

HOME MOVIES FOR JANUARY PACE 37 lation typewriter titlers provide a distance between camera lens and title card of eight inches, affording a title area of z%" by ilA" • The lettering limits are even less. The usual allowance for border between lettering and edge of title card is about Yz" . This would allow for a typed line about i J/g inches in length — sufficient for about three or four average words and three to four lines of type (double spaced) to the title. Effort should be made toward obtaining sharpest possible impression of type on title card; also, that a fresh black typewriter ribbon be used. Many amateurs type directly on carbon paper laid over the title card, removing the ribbon to obtain a clear cut impression. The length or screening time of a title is a problem that often stumps the novice. The best rule to follow is to slowly read the title twice while photographing it — making the exposure for the length of time it takes to read it. Because of the cheapness of positive film, the tendency to be frugal with footage should be avoided. It is far better to have to cut a title to size than to have to remake it because the first attempt produced a title too brief to be easily read on the screen. Where the amateur wishes to develop his own titles, he will find the work interesting as well as simple to perform. Where developing racks and trays are not immediately available, titles may be cut apart and developed singly by hand in an improvised tray. Where this procedure is to be followed, the beginning and end of a title can be marked on the film for the purpose of cutting later, by opening camera door in the dark and, with aid of illumination from a red safelight, making a small cut or notch on edge of film. Prepared tubes of positive developer are readily available from camera stores and these contain complete directions for use. After title film is developed for the required length of time, it is then washed in clear water, given another bath in hypo, then washed again in clear water and allowed to dry. Much of the lack of titling in movie films is due to the amateur's ignorance of the simplicity of making titles. Once the "direct-positive" method is tried, it is likely to be followed thereafter for all films. Positive titles are applicable to Kodachrome movies as well as black and white, by simply tinting or toning them after developing. Tinting and toning is a process equally as simple as developing and is explained further elsewhere in this issue. There also appears, on another page, an article dealing with the construction of a simple "typewriter" titler. So, with all the data presented in this issue, the amateur seriously interested in making his own titles is provided with ample instruction. Not to have produced your own titles is to miss a lot of fun in the hobby of making movies. (Recording, Sound on 3)Uc* . . . • Continued from Page 14 synchronized; second, the starting point of the recording may be spaced farther from the center of the disc. It will be seen that the perimeter of the disc travels a greater distance and therefore relatively faster than the inside area near the label, making the outside area the most desirable for best sound quality in amateur recording. Because 78 r.p.m. discs travel much faster, they offer some advantage over those cut at 33-1/3 r.p.m. in the matter of fidelity, when produced on equipment intended for amateur use. All in all, the chief limitation of 78 r.p.m. equipment is in the limited playing time of the recordings and this at once indicates 33-1/3 r.p.m. equipment as the most logical for home movie sound recordings. Where highest fidelity is desired, this can be obtained by recording as far from center of the disc blank as length of our movie will permit. Having established that the outside area of the disc is preferred for recording, it becomes necessary to determine how much of that area will be required so that the recording can be started as far away from center of disc as possible and yet complete the recording before running off the edge of the disc. (In fact, properly cut, the recording should terminate about l/4 inch from the very edge of the disc.) This demands that the projection time of our film be established in terms of recording time. In order to do this, let us assume we have a 12 5 -foot reel of 16mm. film for which we wish to make a recording. Splicing a blank leader about five feet in length to the film, we thread it in the projector and make a start mark on that frame resting in the film gate opposite the frame aperture. This can be an ink spot, a hole punched in the film, or a spot made by scraping away the emulsion. 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