Home Movies (1944)

PACE 118 HOME MOVIES FOR MARCH SOUND For Your Silent Films! LET us convert your 16mm. picture to a sound film of the highest quality. Skilled technical staff, and finest sound recording equipment and studio failities to serve industrial, amateur, and educational film producers. OUR SERVICE USED BY: t Santa Fe Railroad ► Douglas Aircraft Co. ► Boeing Aircraft Co. ► North American Aviation y Standard Oil Co. of Calif. ► D. S. Dept. of Interior r U. S. Army Special Services and manv others. Write for Literature and Prices TELEFILM INCORPORATED 603? Hollywood Blvd., HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 3 with BLACK and WHITE fine grain Semi-Ortnoehromatie Reversible Film for finest results — lowest cost. 16mm. Reversible Outdoor Film 100-ft. Roll, only $2.50 Rating Schemer 18 8mm. Reversible Outdoor Film 25' Dble 8, only $1.25 Same day processing included. Ask your dealer or send money direct. Write for prices for developing and processing for 8mm. and 16mm. films bought elsewhere. VISUAL INSTRUCTION SUPPLY CORP. 1757 Broadway Dept. 12 Brooklyn 7. N. Y. EVERY 8MM. FAN WANTS CINE EXTEIMAR It's the new WIDE ANGLE lens that every cine fan needs to catch the whole picture. Simply screws over regular 8mm. lens, providing identical focus and definition plus a WIDE ANGLE. $27.50 FOR FULL PARTICULARS, WRITE TODAY CAMERA SPECIALTY CO. 48 West 29th Street New York City WE HAVE 8MM. 16MM. FILM 100 ft. I6mm. ortho weston 6 S2.50 IGO ft. 16mm, panchromatic weston 64 54.85 33 ft. double 88 panchromatic Weston 24 SI. 89 These prices include Free processing. Write for Free circulars listing our Movie accessories, chemicals and bulk film. We do processing. FROMADER GENERA CO. DAVENPORT. IOWA Distinctive TITLES and expert EDITING For the Amateur and Professional 16M1I. — 8MM. Black and White Kodachrome Write for our illustrated catalogue STAHL EDITING & TITLING SERVICE 33 West 42nd Street New York. N. Y. (Review* 0/ cAmateur 3ilm& . . . CUT HOME MOVIE COSTS Continued from Page 94 ir EVERY filmer of amateur movies, whether a subscriber or not, is invited to submit his films to the editors for review and helpful criticism. This free service applies to any type of picture whether it be your first movie or a pretentious photoplay effort. Aim of this service is to help you make better pictures. Reviewed films will be rated I, 2 and 3 stars. Those rating 2 or 3 stars will receive Free an animated leader indicative of its merit. Best film reviewed each month will receive a special certificate award as the Movie of the Month. All films are returned promptly by insured express together with merit leaders and special analysis report. all together in one sequence. Titling of the picture is adequate and the only criticism on this phase of the picture is that subtitles are too ornate. Here again we must admonish all movie makers to keep subtitles as plain and easy to read as possible. Omit fancy and ornamental backgrounds — keep these for main and credit titles — and use plain lettering over plain backgrounds for subtitles. Mr. Frost filmed this picture, which runs 300 feet in 8mm. Kodachrome, with an Eastman magazine eight, using a 9mm. wide angle lens, a regular 13mm. lens and a 63mm. telephoto. All scenes were taken with a haze filter before the lens. A 2-Star Home Movies Merit Leader has been awarded the picture. T\\"0 Boys and the Indians" is a thoroughly amateur-produced movie. The only thing its producer, Newton R. Wimer, of Burbank, California, did not do was to make the film. He conceived the story, photographed, edited and titled it, processed the film himself, then sepia toned it. When he screens the picture, he plays a special selection of melodies from Stravinsky's "Fire Bird Suite" for background music. Two boys, about 5 and 11, meet their father in the woods. The older boy excitedly displays an Indian bow and arrow. When his father questions him about it, he relates how he came by it. Scenes that follow show the lad and his younger brother hunting in the woods — older boy has a small rifle. They encounter a young Indian who surprises them with a misdirected arrow shot. The older boy immediately pursues the Ii.dian, shoots him, and takes his bow and quiver of arrows. As the two lads retrace their steps, they are intercepted by another young Indian who attempts to kidnap the younger. This Indian, too, is shot, and the boys finally make their way back to their father. Here he listens to their story, marvels at their escape. The picture was well photographed from standpoint of composition and editing. Only the use of an extremely slow film prevented Mr. Wimer from obtaining better exposures. Previously, he relates, he had always used DuPont Sound Recording positive film ; this time, he was obliged to use a different brand of positive film, much slower in speed and of entirely different characteristics. The continuity was well developed and is enhanced by good editing and titling. The entire picture, which runs 200 feet in 16mm., was filmed near Lake Arrowhead in four hours' time. Camera used was a Bell & Howell model 70-A, without tripod. A 3 -Star Home Movies Merit Leader has been awarded the picture. Voice 3or \J[our 3ilm£ . . . • Continued from Page 10) B & W ^Torkprints from Kodachrome, Per foot Kodachrome Composite Prints, Per foot B & W Composite from Reversal, Per foot .06 .1295 .075 VHERE SOUXD IS SUPPLIED OX DISCS TO BE RECORDED OX FILM Black and \i'hite Picture from Xega tive, Incl. 1st Print S 65.00 Black and U'hite Picture from Reversal, Incl. 1 st Print 85.00 Kodachrome Picture, Incl. 1st Print — 105.00 Telefilm, Inc., Hollywood, supplies prospective clients with a comprehensive leaflet that gives instructions for the preparation of a film that is to be sent them for recording of sound, and which explains what takes place in the process of recording and completing the finished sound print. Any film, black and white or color, and filmed with any 1 6mm. camera, may have a sound track added by direct recording on a duplicate print. The picture intended for projection with sound should originally be shot at 24 frames per second, although subjects filmed at 16 frames per second speed are equally acceptable. The only difference is that action in the latter picture will appear speeded up to some extent when projected at sound speed. The owner of the film, of course,