Home Movies (1944)

PACE 50 HOME MOVIES FOR FEBRUARY Put the FINISHING TOUCH to all well edited home movies with CRAIG FOTOFADE Joins odd scenes smoothly and easily with fades or wipes, easy and quick to use — needs no special equipment — simple instructions — each bottle sufficient for hundreds of applications— S 1 . 2 5 each, with special waterproof masking tape $1.75. CRAIG CAMERA AND PROJECTOR OIL Insures smooth, quiet operation of camera or projector at all times — it thoroughly lubricates and prevents rust and will not harm film. Per bottle 25c. CRAIG SAFETY FILM CEMENT is a quick drying, positive film cement for splices that really stick. It's easy to use — has brush in Bakelite bottle top— 25c a bottle. CRAIG PRODUCTS Make Editing Easy Fun" CRAIG MOVIE SUPPLY COMPANY Los Angeles • San Francisco • Seattle CAMERA FILM 16MM. 100 FEET — $2.40 8mm. Double, 25 Feet — $1.25 PRICES INCLUDE PROCESSING 35mm. Bulk Film 1 0c Foot Including Developing (160 pictures) Min. Order 20 Feet Silly Symphonies. Charlie Chaplin and other features at 1 1 2C 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 Best Welding Film Cement 20< Bottle EXHIBITORS FILM EXCHANGE 630 Ninth Ave D * H) Film Center Bldg..N.Y.C. The Reader SPEAKS Post-war Planning Sirs: I am extremely interested in Joseph Lenser's articles on post-war cameras and projectors. When he gets around to rewinds and splicers, as I hope he will, do have him suggest that manufacturers make a splicer for us common garden variety of movie fiends that will make a whole frame lap instead of half-a-frame as at present. We eightmillimeter filmers are in the majority anyway, so merit some consideration! I long had wanted a full frame splicer. Then when I read Al Morton's article in the March 1943 issue, telling how he built one himself, I had a friend make one for me. It is better than any half-frame splicer now being manufactured except that there is still a little play in the mechanism — something that would be eliminated in regular precision manufacture. Later, I removed my old splicer — a Seemann's — from my editing board, took it to a jeweler and had him rebuild it to make a full frame splice. I now have both splicers mounted on my editing board to expedite my editing. One needs two splicers when doing much editing. You don't have to sit and twiddle your thumbs while waiting for the film cement to set. So, in my post-war editing board, I want two full frame 8mm. splicers — one mounted on each side of the film viewer. And the first one a manufacturer turns out, if it works okay, I promise to buy it no matter what it costs. Now that Mr. Lenser (what a name for a movie fiend!) has the floor, please have him speak out for use who suffer in silence. — Mrs. A. W. Kortkamp, Molhie, Illinois. Sirs: With all the post-war planning of cine equipment going on, I'd like to suggest that film cement manufacturers give a little thought to improving cement bottles in order to make them easier to use. In spite of the general switch from cork stoppers to the modern plastic screw caps, the old cork stoppers were the easiest to work with; required only one hand to handle the cement. I'd like to see manufacturers adopt the bottle in which Pathe in Europe long have sold their safety film cement. It has a glass stopper, similar to a perfume bottle. The stopper makes an air tight closure by virtue of the ground glass fini-h of the stopper surface and the battle n:ck in which it fits. — John Challot, Los Angeles. Sirs: Even though cine apparatus manufacturers never develop a camera such as Joseph Lenser suggests in his November article, I hope those who continue to manufacture 16mm. magazine cameras will provide an accurate frame counter and a means for easily backwinding film in same. Amateurs have reached that stage where backwinding the film in the camera is an important function in their movie making, and a magazine camera should provide the backwinding feature as a logical adjunct to its other advanced features.— Joseph Boiling, Seattle, Wash. Magazine Frame Counter Sirs: I should like to communicate with any movie maker who has successfully devised a frame counter for the J 6mm. magazine Cine Kodak. — /. Szentagotay, 5 131 N. D. G. At e., Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A Better Way Sirs: Roland Krause, in the "Experimental Cine Workshop for January, advised painting a white line on side of film spools as a means of quickly locating film slot in core when spooling positive film under a safelight. Even in bright light, inserting end of film in spool slot is a tedious task. A much simpler method is to secure end of film to core with a piece of scotch or adhesive tape. Richard Walton, Minneapolis, Minn. NEW FILM MAGAZINE Gentlemen: I noticed in Reader Speaks, January issue, interest expressed by a reader in a post-war camera adaptable to both roll and magazine film. For his information or that of any other interested party, there is to be just such a film magazine "when the lights go on again," if certain manufacturers of cameras and film mean anything by the interest shown to date in a newly developed magazine of this typeBriefly it may be described as follows: — Maximum capacity 100 feet. —Size 3'/2" x3%" x I 'A" — as easily loaded as a "Brownie" (Subdued light necessary). — will also take 25 or 50-foot spools of film. — may be loaded with bulk film up to 100 feet. Further information is restricted at this time.— L. W. ADAMS, Valleio, Calif.