Home Movies (1954)

Color Slides New Models . . . New Poses'. Gorgeous, breath-taking Color Slides of female figures. Poses deliberately planned to reveal the utmost in beauty. You will be thrilled at the detail, color and clarity. 10 DIFFERENT 2x2 slides in each set. Mounted ready for proiector or viewer. Order them all and you'll have a treosure. EXCLUSIVE NEW SLIDE SETS Set of 10 Slides $ 3.00 2 Different Sets (20 Slides) 5.50 4 Different Sets (40 Slides) 10.00 Shipped Prepaid in Plain Sealed Wrapper. No. C.O.D.'s NATIONAL, Dept. 248, Box 5, Sta. E, Toledo 9, Ohio f Interested in Tape Recorders ! If you hove one or wish you had, you'll enjoy comparing features and prices of all makes. Write for new FREE tape recorder directory. I Kideli Wy mui 5 ^ GEO. K. CULBERTS0N CO. |t0n6 8471 Ler°y Street mi turntables San Gabriel. California OH! THEY'RE CUTE! Home Movies & Photos of" GORGEOUS GIRLS! FRK: SPECIAL FILM LIST J Send 25r for Startling / Real-L fe 3-D STILLS / to RICHTER'S Dept. 1 2 [2424 Entrance Dr., Hollywood 27, Colif^ onnnr,TL # I j NOW — Your / | P 1 2000 TITLES. I ^0 ^0 ^0 ea. 8mm-16r ES! r choice of Low as 20< mm-B& W -Color. Postcard brings BIG FREE CATALOG! Pino Praft 8762 BEVERLY BLV0 OllllHIdll LOS ANGELES 48, CALIF. CASH for Still Photos for Home Movies Magazine COVER PICTURES $15.00 per photo for good 8 x 10 glossies, vertical composition — for cover use. Photos must be sharp, have good contrast, and should illustrate seasonal subjects. Large heads are preferred, singles or groups in action acceptable. PHOTOS FOR EDITORIAL USE $5.00 to $10.00 depending upon interest, and quality. Pictures should show cine filming activities such as titling, editing and other phases of home movies. TECHNICAL PHOTOS Any photo illustrating a cine idea, gadget, method or new way in motion pictures is acceptable. $5.00 to $3.00 depending upon quality. Home Movies will pay upon acceptance. Contributors must include return postage and self-addressed envelope. The publishers assume no responsibility for unsolicited photos or drawings. Reply in five days. CIHEM1SC0PE new Bell & Howell system By JAMES RANDOLPH The Bell & Hoicell Company announced this month they have embarked upon the manufacture of their new Cinemascope lens which they are making after arranging with 20th Century Fox to produce the system for use on 16mm cameras. A demonstration of the process was held in Hollywood December 2nd, 1935 — and here is the PRO Cl.XEPHOTOGRAPHER report. WHEN Bell & Howell began manufacture of the Cinemascope lens for 20th Century Fox. someone got the idea that a 16 mm version would he feasible and research was begun to further this idea. Two weeks before Pro Cinematvgrapher went to press, we had the opportunity to see the lens and several short films which were shot under various conditions by a variety of cameramen. The lens is quite large, by ordinary standards. and is fixed to the camera with a special bracket. \\e don't know whether a tripod bushing has been bored at the base of the bracket but this would be a logical thing to do. in order to balance the equipment in use. Bell & Howell claims that this lens is the world's sharpest anamorphic lens, containing six elements which has been colimated for crisp definition to the corner and edges. Glass surfaces (air) are magnesium fluoride coated, and the three doublets are butyl methacrylate cemented. They state that color banding and fringing is eliminated by correction of all color aberrations. Essentially, the Cinemascope lens is an add-on unit which, when mounted on any camera lens, squeezes a widefield picture I aspect ratio 2.5 to 1) into a standard picture frame. Screen used for the demonstration was the new Astrolite material manufactured by Radiant size 8 feet by 20 feet at a projection distance of approximately 40 feet. Three short films were shown. The first one was a record of military personnel marching and then a grand review on a vast field. Evidently the cameramen on this one, unfamiliar with the new lens made several blunders which were reflected in their footage. But the second sequence taken in Washington by Byron was superb. Most of it consisted of travelling shots where the camera was fixed on a truck or car and this moved along the streets of Washington showing the vast panorama of the city — from eye level. It would have been impossible to get the same effect with the conventional lens equipment unless the cameraman made his shots from a mobile unit, and located the camera at a great height. The third film was short by Roy W olfert, and this one contains a • See CINEMASCOPE on Page 28 24