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Published in Hollywood SEPTEMBER 1944
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HE increased commercial use of 1 6mm. films in recent months has opened up profitable opportunities for filmers with good i6mm. color footage. Stories are common of amateurs with more than average filming skill who have disposed, at a nice profit, footage shot in 1 6mm. Kodachrome of some interesting or unusual scene or event. Many of those fortunate to be in the vicinity and who captured i6mm. color shots of the early eruptions of Mt. Paracutin, the bustling new volcano in Mexico, have had no difficulty in selling their films for many times the original raw stock cost.
Several Hollywood studios have been buying i6mm. color footage that can be used in Technicolor process shots and some which is potential short subject material. Enlarged to 35mm. Technicolor, substandard color movies, when accurately exposed, cannot be distinguished on the screen from original Technicolor. Then there are the 16mm. commercial film producers and distributors ever on the lookout for good 16mm. color films with educational or enter
DOLLARS IN DUPES
Perfect Exposure In Originals Secret of Successful Color Duplicates
tainment value. These are purchased for duplication and commercial release.
Burton Belknap of Seattle recently sold several hundred feet of Kodachrome covering Seattle and the 4nland Empire to a 1 6mm. producer for educational release. Leo Caloia, Los Angeles 16mm. filmer, has sold several 100 foot Kodachrome subjects to a Hollywood 16mm. producer-distributor with post-war
plans for extensive distribution of 8mm. and 1 6mm. short subjects in color. Another filmer, now enroute to Central and South America, holds an option from a major studio promising purchase, at $4000 per 400 feet, of all acceptable 1 6mm. color film brought back and offered them. There are others, but lack o f space prevents recounting them here.
Obviously such opportunities fall only to those skilled in obtaining perfect color exposures and who are wise in the ways of protecting their original films against damage in order to insure flawless duplicating. Good subjects in color, to be marketable, must be perfectly exposed and the film free from scratches or other blemishes to insure satisfactory duplication or enlargement. Color films that are screened several times usually are not acceptable for duping, because • Continued on Page )jS
• Typical of color scenes requiring careful flat lighting is this group shot. Unless light intensity is equal over the entire area, shadows in background and other dark areas will build up in the duplicate, making details indistinguishable.
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