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"Slidetitles" Available from B & H
Film titling service is no longer confined to amateur movie makers, according to an announcement just received from Bell & Howell. "Good titles will add just as much interest to a show of projected still pictures," says B & H, "as they do to a movie show, and we are now prepared to furnish 'our entire selection of 79 Title-Craft backgrounds on Slidetitles."
The announcement states further that the Slidetitles, furnished on 35mm. film in , 2"x2" standard cardboard mounts, are available in two two-tone combinations for use with color transparencies: green with gold overtones and gold letters or brown with gold overtones and gold letters.
Title-Craft's stock of backgrounds includes two types, photograph'c and poster, and is said to contain subjects suitable for every season and a wide variety of occasions.
Prices on Title-Craft Slidetitles on poster backgrounds begin at 25c per title, on photographic backgrounds at 35c per title.
For further information, write the Bell & Howell Company, 1801 Larchmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Agfa Offers Greeting Card Outfit
Again Agfa Ansco offers an outstanding line of attractive holiday greeting-card materials that will be of particular interest to the amateur photographers who make their personal Christmas Cards.
Greeting, Card Outfit 1A contains four different film masks of extremelv attractive design, and special, new, stencilling materials for reproducing the user's signature on the cards photographically — with complete instructions for use. The masks are 5x7" overall and are proportioned to use paper of the standard 4^x5%" greetingcard size. Three of the masks contain cutout openings of 2x3" to take negatives with a vertical format, and the remaining mask takes horizontal negatives. The 1A Greeting Card Outfit is obtainable through regular photographic dealers at $1.25 each.
Three especially designed masks, which sell separately at $.65 list each, are available to accommodate various-size negatives.
A special surface of Agfa paper, known as Greeting Card Special, is provided for use in making greeting cards. This paper is priced the same as Convira double weight and is supplied in four grades of contrast in deckled 41/4x51/2" size.
White vellum envelopes, either lined or unlined, are also available. These envelopes make an attractive combination when used with photographic Christmas Cards and list at the following prices: Unlined — 25 for 20c, 100 for 75c, 500 for $2.65;
Lined— 25 for 30c, 100 for $1.15, 500 for $4.15.
B & H Illumination Explained
We noted not long ago that Bell & Howell is now using smooth-base projection lamps, still retaining the centering ring that this company has employed for many years. Since no other manufacturer has ever adopted such a ring, we were moved
to wonder why Bell & Howell continues to go to the trouble of putting a centering ring on each projection lamp. And we wondered, too, just how this "pre-aligning" is done by the makers of Filmo. So we asked.
"This is another example," said B & H "of the manner in which standard products are tested, refined, and improved when used in B & H equipment. This pre-align
Eastman Kodascope Eight-33 Projector, described in September issue.
International Photographer for October, 1941
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