Home Movies (1950)

Wow 1 SYNCHRONIZED SOUND FOR YOUR 8 AND 16 M.M. HOME MOVIES , possibilities. Among them, an oldfashioned pump, something that is fast disappearing in this modern age. The old parlor, almost as it was in my mother's day. There is enough sunlight to take it at 2.5 so I have my in-law move back some of the old pictures from the attic and an old wooden peacock, painted grey with real peacock feathers in the spread of its tail; a hideous affair but the centre of attraction in my mother's day. As a relief from this heaviness, I take a close-up of my youngest brother's knees so I can have a guess-who contest in my movies a la radio. Then I play a trick on him; pretending the light was not right, I move to a different angle and take him full length in his shorts. I shall cut this in at a different place in my movie. Some shots of the children on the tractor and some of the general store where everything is sold; from the most expensive bone china from England to kerosene. The store window has a colorful ad of Bull Durham tobacco and a large geranium plant, typical New Brunswick. A reading taken at the window is right for this. Now to my sister's at Peel. On my way, I pass through Hartland where I read in a travel article ,that they use oxen. I am a little afraid that if anyone goes there with the idea of photographing oxen, they are going to be disappointed. If they ever used oxen there, it must have been well before my mother's day. We do have things to make up for the oxen. For instance, the longest covered bridge in the world. Here the waters of the St. John sweeps on majestically to the Bay of Fundy. Still dealing with relatives, the poor fish! I shot some scenes of the famous salmon pool and even caught some fish, that is with the camera. Another day, another trick to be played. My "Peel" sister is very prim, my younger sister fun-loving. I took a shot of my younger sister doing a naughty dance. This shot, being from the breast down. We tell my prim sister that we all are doing a skit in that dress. We do have a hard time to fit her with white shoes. I shot her full length and also a close-up of her face so that no one can make the mistake of not thinking she is doing the risque part. I shot a sequence of my sister's mother-in-law — eighty-three years old — and her granddaughter. Grandma walks as spry as her grand daughter; dresses beautifully and decorously in form-fitting black coats, etc. Her gay brown eyes just snapped with pleasure when we were preparing her to "act." Where! Oh where! Shall I find an old • continued on Page £93 Wl tk MOVIEVOX Now You Can Add Perfect "Lip-Sync" Sound to Home Movies Usins Your Present Projector Now you can dub sound on a wire recorder and play back in perfect synchronization. The new MOVIEVOX synchronizer keeps projector and recorder in perfect step — every time — automatically. Mistakes made in recording can be magnetically erased and quickly corrected. You can't miss with the MOVIEVOX! Connects to any 8mm or 16mm projector — silent or sound. MOVIEVOX — complete with synchronizer, microphone, amplifier, wire recorder, speaker, all necessary cords — sells at your dealer's for $225.00. Or the MOVIEVOX synchronizer can be installed on your Webster wire recorder and projector for only $75.00. See your dealer today — or write for illustrated literature. MOVI E VOX THE MOVIEVOX COMPANY DEPT. H 1113 PLEASANTON ROAD • SAN ANTONIO 4, TEXAS PRECISION "T" STOP LENS CALIBRATION Transmission calibration of all type of lenses, any focal length, latest method accepted by Motion Picture Industry and Standards Committee of SMPE. Equalize your lens stops on all focal lengths for proper exposure density by having them "T" Stop calibrated now. LENSES COATED FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AND SPECIAL TV COATING — PROMPT SERVICE. FRANK C. ZUCKER