Home Movies (1944)

HOME MOVIES FOR MAY PACE 201 speed 8 film with a green filter. Coming back the following Sunday to complete the scene (the same film still in camera) we ran into very overcast light conditions that, to get sufficient exposure on the film, we had to slow down the action and shoot at 12 frames per second. For one period of three weeks we were unable to get any film whatever. So, we were forced on the last day to use some bulk film that was almost three years old. We had to guess at its loss of speed. Our guess was bad and it was under-exposed. "Our script originally worked up to what we thought would be a good climax. There was an abandoned house which was located in an isolated spot and which had been condemned. We had arranged to use this with smoke bombs for close-up and interior scenes and then destroy the building by actual fire. This was being left to the very end of our shooting. Ten days before we were ready, somehow or other that building burned down at night! This materially hurt our story. We were forced at almost the last minute to substitute the scenes now in the picture, which were taken at a school and (quite naturally) were so different from what was intended that the "punch" was removed from the picture. In the scenes of the hose-drill, we found that the breeze kept covering the filter with a fine spray, so we removed the filter and managed to keep the lens dry, but lost contrast between water streams and sky. "A few statistics which might be pertinent: The script called for 314 scenes, was 22 pages of single-space typing, and with the exception of the change mentioned above, was followed exactly; though in the final editing, a few of the scenes were eliminated, and the sequence of some was altered. "In all, we used fourteen rolls of film, discarding almost a quarter of it in the cutting and editing. Most of the loss was due to technical errors on the part of the Auxiliaries. These errors had to be cut out, of course, to satisfy the officials of the Fire Department. The conditions under which we obtained permission to make the picture precluded the possibility of either rehearsing or retaking a single scene. So we either used what we got originally 01 had to go without it. You will agree that this was quite a handicap. "We started making arrangements to shoot this picture in February of last year. We went out with the Auxiliaries several times to see what they did, and then started working on the script. The script was completed late in April 1943, and submitted to Chief Schaefer (second in command in our Fire Department) who passed it with a few alterations. He assigned Lieut. Stojkovich to work with us; and had it not been for MEWS OF THE WORLD ^raaXfx JUL BOTH ON ONE FILM 16mm. & 8mm. Silent and Sound This is the finest News-of-the-World presentation we have ever offered. See the Allies' siege of Cassino, fierce fighting in mountain passes, bloody i*tfHBH»«» battling in the ruins of Cassino's Continental Hotel and Roman Amphitheatre. See closeups of the bombing and destruction of the Cassino Abbey by the world's greatest air force. MARSHALL ISLANDS on the same film. See our Navy lambast the Japs, conquer the islands Roi, Namur and Kwajelein islands, the first conquered pre-war Jap territory. Closeups of destruction of Jap planes, ships and installations. Vivid scenes that will thrill the heart of every red-blooded American. Here is a priceless film record you will show again and again on your own screen. Brilliant I heatre-Like Quality — Expertly Processed When you buy News-of-the-World presentations you are assured of the finest quality home movies available. Processed by Excel's expert laboratory technique, you get bril liant, flickerless home reproduction at the price of ordinary films. Get this sensational film at your dealers or mail the coupon today. TRY YOUR DEALER FIRST . . . if fie can't Supply You THEN USE THIS HANDY COUPON MOVIE PRODUCTS 4230 W. DRUMMOND, CHICAGO 39, ILL. EXCEL MOVIE PRODUCTS, Dept. 32 4230 Drummond Place, Chicago 39, Illinois Gentlemen: Enclosed find S Please send me "News-of-the Bombing of Cassino" plus "Marshall Islands" on one film. World1 16 mm. □ Highlight 100 feet □ Digett 200 feet S mm. □ Highlight SO feet $2.75 5.50 $1.75 □ Complete 360 feet □ Sound $50 feet $8.75 17.50 □ Complete □ Digest 100 feet $2.75 180 feet $5.50 Name. City.