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HOME MOVIES FOR SEPTEMBER
$1 to $5 are paid readers for ideas for gadgets, movie tricks and short cuts in movie making used on this page. Describe your gadget or idea briefly and submit it with rough sketch or photo to "The Workshop Editor," Home Movies, 6060 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, California.
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Film Cleaner
A white cotton glove turned soft side out and worn on the left hand, as pictured here, makes an excellent film cleaner. Film is simply run through gloved fingers during rewinding process, the soft surface of glove wiping it clean. Where film has become oily or grease-onarked from proj.cctor, a drop or two of carbon tetra-chloride on the glove will quickly rid film of dirt and grime.
The glove thus used will become soiled after awhile. Wash away the stains by dipping in carbon tetrachloride or dry cleaning fluid and wiping stains with cloth. The glove may then be used indefinitely. — Robert Trainor, Burlingame, Calif.
No Double Exposure
Here is a solution to an annoyance
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common to users of double 8mm. cameras. Often when the roll of film has not been completely used, the cameraist is not sure whether the roll has be;n turned over in the camera if shooting isn't completed in one day. To get around this, I use a small piece of adhesive tape as a signal. This I place over the lock of the camera door after loading camera with a fresh roll of film.
When turning the roll of film over to expose the second 25 feet, I remove the strip of tape and place it inside of the door. Thus, tape on the outside indicates I'm using the first 2 5 feet of film, and when its on the inside, I know I'm on the second half. Thus I avoid double exposing over previously exposed film. — Carlton A. Benson, Ludington, Mich.
Editing Aid
A convenient way to k;ep separated scenes in order, ready for splicing, is to provide a lengthy strip of double corrugated cardboard over the editing table and a supply of thumb tacks. With heavy pencil or pen and ink, place numbers from 1 on up on this strip, at intervals of about 1 Yz inches.
During editing or when breaking down film into separate scenes, fasten scene 1 with a thumb tack through the last sprocket hole, placing it just below figure I on the corrugated strip. — Gregg Koester, Wichita, Kan.
Steady Tripod
Lightweight tripods have a tendency to skid on certain surfaces on which they are used, regardless of the kind of tips used on the legs. Sketched here are three expedients that may be employed to add more rigidity to the tripod when in use. The first is a simple "Y" constructed of wood slats with blocks to take the tripod leg tips. Used on smooth floors, tripod cannot slip. Hinging the arms of the "Y" enables