Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1939)

MOVIE MAKERS ful suggestions through several local showings. The field of sports cinematography is wide open. New ideas in athletic coaching are always wanted, and the movie can record and present them better than any other medium. Our coaching film service is ever active. A team always can learn to improve by studying a film record of successes and slips under fire on gridiron, basketball court or in any event of a school's sports parade. Your own diffusion [Continued from page 219] of the inside of the shaker. One can slip on a filter with no more difficulty than putting the cover back on a pill box. To produce one of these diffusion filters, cut a circular opening, almost as large as possible, in the top of a pill box. Then cut some gauze, to produce a round piece of the proper size, and glue this to the rim so that it is taut over the opening. The gauze in place is illustrated in Fig. E. Since empty pill boxes are inexpensive, purchase a number of them at the drug store, all of the same size as the original one, of course, and you will be prepared to make various effect and diffusion filters, as you wish. What can you use as diffusion material? Almost any fabric that appears to the eye as a screen of small mesh. The finer the mesh, the more the effect of diffusion; also, the heavier the material — if the mesh is small — the greater the diffusion. The only requirement is that the material be dark — preferably dark brown, dark blue or black. Light colored materials give a gray diffusion resembling fog or mist, and, unless appropriately used for such an effect, they may give the shot an appearance of slight overexposure. The possible materials are almost limitless in number. I have used, successfully, silks, lace, netting for veils, cheesecloth, mousseline de soie, georgette, voile, chiffon (ladies' hose), malines and even a small section of black wire screen. Pieces of material can be obtained at remnant stores for a few cents. Before it is used, the material is allowed to remain between the leaves of a book overnight, so that it will be pressed flat. (Ironing sometimes destroys the soft fuzziness of the threads.) The fabric may be glued to the pill box top easily by the following procedure. Place it on a piece of glass and then give the narrow band, which remains of the pill box top, a layer of glue or paste. The box top is laid on the cloth on the glass and held there by pressure for a few seconds. Then it is turned over and left to dry. A piece of glass is used as a table for these operations, because the glue that 239 tie-maker! •rite L aS af°v ^^^^^^^^\*\tK __ .„ At kowve-oK at either of tike -hai>uyautA movie* om, a, \pje>u/WAJiAmt >t>eco>ui o^tkelnxypjf^ Be6Wve tkat tkeix ip£h,wuim!rtce U eJiAJkoMced &ty Beauty, and (kWtiaMt \/iho{ectloi^. It u ea&y, WMJ\(J!ty load youA camera w'dk CjjexjXAeJct 16 wum,. oc docdle S wum. ftlmA 16MM REVERSAL FILMS PANCHRO SUPER REVERSAL 50 ft $3.25 100 ft $6.00 PANCHRO MICROGRAN REVERSAL 50 ft $2.50 100 ft $4.50 ORTHO REVERSAL 50 ft $2.50 100 ft $4.50 DOUBLE 8MM REVERSAL FILMS PANCHRO SUPER REVERSAL $2.25 PANCHRO MICROGRAN REVERSAL $2.25 ORTHO REVERSAL .... $2.00 The above films are 25 feet long, 16mm. wide and "prescored" enabling the user to separate the film into two 8mm. lengths. Convenient processing stations all over the world insure prompt reversal service. No additional charge for processing. Return postage prepaid. XU GEVAERT COMPANY of AMERICA It 423 West 55th Street, New York