Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1938)

36 JANUARY 1938 Winter ZMaoic Snow Time — Your winter movies will have far greater charm if skillfully edited and titled. Why not bring them to us for professional treatment by experts and see how attractive they can be made. We are glad to offer suggestions, compose titles and in other ways help you to bring out the real beauty of your films. Helpful new booklet on request. EDITING & TITLING SERVICE Eastman Kodak Company 33 West 42nd Street, New York SIMPLEX FILM CLEANING DEVICE Clean your Alms as you rewind. Remove dust, grit, & finger marks. For 16mm. and 8mm. film. Outfit consists of: — Film Cleaning Device with cleaning pads, extra pads and 8 oz. can of cleaning fluid. Price $3.50 Postpaid in U. S. A. SIMPLEX FADING GLASS Makes fade-in and fade-out effects. In carrying case, with instructions. Price $2.00 Send for list of Geld Seal Superscenics. 100 ft. 16mm. subjects $4.50 each. ERNEST M. REYNOLDS 165 E. 191 ST. CLEVELAND. OHIO 8 ENLARGED «| ^* REDUCED Q TO ID TO O GEO. W. 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After the first couple of "What the 's" from our movie audiences, they lean forward in anticipation, waiting to see how we're going to get around the next little problem of our mystic dinner party. But they always greet the end of our masterpiece with something akin to "That was great stuff. How did you do it? And, incidentally, how about offering us something to eat?" We'd planned to anyway. Winning the Maxim Award [Continued from page 15] a move, but they remain studying the pieces without moving them. The suspense increases each time. When, at last, the deciding move is made and a few swift jumps bring the game to an end, it writes a definite period to the Stanley Park sequence. A quick flashback to the traffic light changing from "Go" to "Stop," a fade out on the sign of the sightseeing bus, and we are through with Vancouver. Now the trail turns eastward, by train, into the scenic wonders of the Canadian Rockies. Although making Western Holiday was a pleasure from beginning to end, I probably enjoyed most my work on the railroad sequence. During the previous summer, I had shot a series of scenes of and from the trains, in black and white; this time, I planned to do the whole job over in color. It starts in the terminal at Vancouver, as the Continental Limited stands poised for its long run eastward. Arriving passengers, friends waving goodbye, the giant engine breathing easily, these and other atmosphere shots build up to a climax as the great train at last moves out of the terminal, with Montreal three thousand miles to the eastward. The Limited leaves at dusk, and at dusk the next evening I was rolling eastward myself. The next morning, I reeled off many of my needed shots from the moving train. 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