Home Movies and Home Talkies (Jun 1933-May 1934)

HOME MOVIES & HOME TALKIES IS YOURS A CINE -"KODAK" EIGHT? THEN USE A " DREM CINEM TO ENSURE CORRECT EXPOSURE ^i^%l^ in leather rase from all Kodak ^#w/ dealers or: — DREM PRODUCTS LTD. 37 BEDFORD ST., STRAND, W.C.2 SUPER -SPEED PROCESSING 24 Hours* Service. GEVAERT'S APPROVED LONDON LABORATORIES Best results from all makes of film. Over-dense prints reduced. Reduction from 35-mm. to 16-mm. and 9.5-mm. Projection Theatre, Cutting and Editing Rooms for the use of Amateurs when on Production. For particulars apply to : D«P. FILMS iCtnc Film Laboratories) LTD. 40/42 Osnaburgh Street, London, N.W.I Phone : Museum 1171 The K.P.'Panoram' Head and Tripod The first professional-type tripod for amateur use. Here for the first time a tripod equipment which enables you to .ival the smoothness of professional " Panoram " effects. Perfectly even movement assured by worm drive. Hand controlled tilt movement with speciallockingdevice. Perfect instrument— makers finish in Alpax metal and chromium plate. Head to fit your own tripod 3gns. Special K.P. tripod to suit.of immense strength and rigidity 4gns. Write for full particulars to the maker K.P. INSTRUMENTS Aerial Works, BLAOKHEATH, S.E.3 Phon* : Lee Green 5680. Answer. — There is no question that the 8-mm. size is proving very popular, and as far as this country is concerned the admirable quality of the film stock supplied has done much to influence purchasers in its favour. At the present time the Kodak is the only 8-mm. camera and projector available in England, but in France the Cine Nizo firm have announced both an 8-mm. camera and a projector vphich takes 8-, 8i or 16-mm. films ! In the United States we understand the Victor company will be shortly marketing an 8-mm. camera, while at least one German company has a camera and projector for this size under way. If you like the apparatus we think you are quite safe in purchasing, it as we feel it has definitely come to stay. E. J. B., Walthamstow. A film that is buckled from the heat of the projector lamp can sometimes be satisfactorily restored by being left loosely coiled for a day or two in a tightly closed tin containing a sheet of moistened blotting-paper. At the end of this time the film shotild be placed between two sheets of dry blotting paper and a hot iron passed over it. It is advisable to practice on a piece of waste film, however, in order to ascertain the correct temperature of the iron. H. A. B., Oakham, writes . " I would like to know if the Kodak 8-mm. film is run through the gate of the projector in the same way as the Pathc 9.5-mm. film with a pressure plate at the back. ... I am thinking of part-exchanging my 16-mm. outfit for a Kodak 8 and would like to know if any part of the gate of the Kodak machine comes in contact with the puture area. Also can eojaies be made on 8-mm. film from 16-mm. ? " Answer. — ^The Kodak 8-mm. projector is so designed that there is no friction of metal parts on the picture area and you need not fear any trouble in this regard. We understand that at an early date it will be possible to produce copies on 8-mm. from the 16-mm. size. A. H. H., Keighley, writes : " I am wanting advice on making a title and should be much obliged for your help on the matter. I want the word SPRING inthe foreground and in the background I thought of a field with young lambs playing." Answer. — You do not say what apparatus you have and whether you have the necessarj^ field and lambs ! There are, however, several methods of making animated titles of this kind. Perhaps the simplest is to cut letters out of paper to form the word SPRING and paste them on glass or, alternatively, to paint the letters on tlie glass and then film the animated scene through the glass. If the camera is sharply focussed on the letters then the animated background will be slightly "fuzzy," which rather suits titles of this kind. A second way is to film the background at about two stops smaller than would be right to give correct exposure, so as to obtain a dark background, and then to re-wind the film in the darkroom and expose again on white letters with dead black background. When the film is processed the white letters will then appear on the darkish backgroimd of the original scene. BARGAINS SECOND-HAND CINE CAMERAS. MODEL B CINE KODAK, {/6.5 Kodak lens, camera takes 50 ft. or 100 ft. 16-mm. film. Cost £18 18s For C4 17$. 6d. MODELS CINE KODAK, f/3.5Eodaklens, camera takes 50 ft. or 100 ft. 16-mm. film. Cost, including leather case, £26 6s For £10 lOt. Od. ZEISS IKON KINAMO, Zeiss f/2.7 Tessar lens, the smallest 16-mm. camera on the market. List price, £24 For £12 Os. Od. ENSIGN AUTO KINECAM, Bnsign Cinar f/2.6 lens, leather case. Co8t£18 18s. For £12 12s. Od. ENSIGN AUTO KINECAM, 2 in. Dallmeyer f/3.5, 20-mm. Dallmeyer f/1.5 and 4 in. Dallmeyer f/3.5 lenses, leather case .. .. £32 10*. Od. BELL& HOWELL FILMO,Cookef/3.5,lens,leather case £27 10«. Od MODEL A CINE KODAK, Kodak f/3.5 lens, case and tripod £12 10s. Od. VICTOR, Dallmeyer f/3.5 anastigmat lens, leather case £27 IO1. Od. BOLEX, Hermagis f/3.5 anastigmat lens, camera takes 60 ft., 16 mm. film . . . . £8 17i. 6d. PATHESCOPE 9.5-mm. CAMERA, with motor attachment . . . . £3 18s. 6d. PATHESCOPE 9.S-mm. MOTOCAMERA, Zeiss f/2.7 Tessar lens £12 10s. Od. 3S-mm. ZEISS IKON KINAMO, Zeiss f/4.5 Tessar lens, camera takes 60 ft. standard size film. £10 10s. Od. Any camera sent on 7 days' approval against deposit to value. — Sands Hunter & Co., Ltd., 37 Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.ii HEATHCOTE of NOTTINGHAM processes and retm-ns your cin6 films same day. His library is up-to-date. Super reels from 9d. per night. 8-mm., 9.5 mm. and 16-mm. cameras and projectors in stock. — Heathcote, 243 and 302 Radford Koad, Kottingham. IMPORTANT NOTICE.— We have taken over the business of J. Paterson & Co., Liverpool. For lists of exclusive films, 9-mm. and 16-mm. Send stamp. Order your " Midas " camera-projector from us for quick delivery. Brand new ex-bankrupt stock. Bolox Sound System, listed £115 ; our price £60. Ensign Silent 16, £11 lis. Agfa Camera, 12 guineas. All guaranteed unused. — N. Maurice & Co., 15 Paradise Street, Liverpool. "CINE PHOTO HOUSE."— The Path6acope Film Library. Genuine bargains in S.H. Apparatus. ENSIGN KINECAM, DALLMEYER f/1.5, 1 in speed lens, hardly used. List, £25 ; at £19 10s. MOTOCAMERA B., good condition ; list £6 6s. ; at £6. MOTOCAMERA B., Fitted Meyer f/2.8 lens. List £10 lOg. Od. ; at £8 83. Od. BOLEX MODEL D PROJECTOR, 9-mm. and 16-mm., had very little use. List £30 ; at £29 108. WE TAKE ALL STILL AND CINE CAMERAS AND APPARATUS in part exchanges, and give yovi a keen deal. — D. J. Aland, 6 Park Road, Teddlngton, (on the Station Bridge). Moleiey: 1064. PATHESCOPE SUPERFILMS.— For hire. Is. 6d. 4 clear days ; condition guaranteed ; latest releases ; list free. — Cin^films, 11 Bar-gate, Lincoln. NEW AND SECOND-HAND FILMS FOR SALE.— Path6 9.5-mm., from Is. 6d. each. ; 16-mm., from 10s. 6d. per 100 ft. ; 35-mm. " S-O-F " and silents, 6s. 6d. per reel ; complete lists, stamp. — Cosmo Films, 3 Haigh Street, Brighouse, Yorks. TITLES IMPROVE FILMS — 9-16-mm., from 4d. ; expert work ; reducing ; repeat orders galore, samples, stamp. 9-mm. King Trailer, Is. 3d. ; Bolex rewind, 10s. — W. S. Jackson, Stocktonheath, Warrington. STEDMAN'S— The Central Processing Station of England. Established over five years. Path* and Gevaert specialists. STEDMAN'S — The Title Experts, who can give you all professional tricks and effects on 9.5 mm. Send for lists and samples. IJd. stamp. Trade work a speciality, send for terms. STEDMAN'S— >rew 9.5-mm. Film Release. Germany's new 24-ton airliner on trials. 30 ft., 2s. 6d., post free. — Stedman's Cinematograph Laboratory, Meadow Road, Leeds, 11. ENSIGN AUTOKINECAM, equal new, complete with leather carrying case and original carton, 3 speeds; f/2.6 lens. Cost 18 guineas, accept £13 or near. Large Hunter silver screen, ideal for Cin6 Club. Offers invited.— Wood 167 Cathedral lload, Cardiff. CINEART 9.5-mm. CAMERA FILM. Tins 2/-, processing 2/-. Chargers loaded 2/2i. No Callers. Exclusive 10-mm., 9.5-mm. Films, stamp. Atkinson, 24b Albert Bridge Road, S.W.ll. HOME MOVIES," June, 1933 QUERY COUPON Available for ONE question only during June, 1933.