Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1939)

328 JUNE 1939 Better movies with KIN-O-LUX For perfect movies indoors or out, under the most difficult conditions, use Kin-O-Lux No. 3, an extremely fast, panchromatic film with fine grain. Kin-O-Lux No. 3 produces such extraordinary results that we urge you to compare it with any fast panchromatic film. For outdoor movies you can save money and, at the same time, obtain good results by using economical Kin-O-Lux No. 1 or Kin-O-Lux No. 2. Both are fine grain films possessing unusual gradation, brilliancy and latitude. No. 2 is a little faster. Write for booklet M-61 No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Green Box Red Box Lavender Box 100 ft... S3. 00 $3. SO S6.00 50 ft... 2.00 2. SO 3.50 Prices include Scratch-Proofing, Processing and Return Postage. 24-Hour Return Service. SPEEDS Scheiner Weston Day Mazda Day Mazda No. 1 16° 6 No. 2 18* 12 No. 3 26° 24° 50 40 KIN-O-LUX, INC. 105 West 40th Street New York MAKE THIS SIMPLE TEST with a MARKS POLARIZATION PLATE Hold the plate to your eye and look through it at any glaring, light reflecting object. Then slowly rotate the plate in its polarator mount. You will be amazed at the way the glare and reflection fade out, leaving the object with enhanced clarity and detail. With a Mark? Polarization Plate slipped over your camera lens you can eliminate unwanted reflection and obtain increased sharpness and truer color tones. ASK YOUR DEALER to let you test the Marks plate — ■ note these features 1. 2X factor on non-polarized light, with cut off ratio of 40 to 1 or more throughout the visible polarized spectrum. 2. Ability to polarize in ultra violet and infra red. 3. Absolute color neutrality. 4. Equal polarizing efficiency throughout the spectrum. 5. The only plate with a continuous crystal structure, which can be used without a sunshade. 6. The only plate with crystal structure in optical contact with the glass. Write today for booklet M-62 Plate Polarator Combined Plato Unmounted Alone and Polarator 15mm 19mm 25mm 31mm 39mm 51mm $3.75 4.75 5.50 5.75 6.25 S3. 00 3.25 3.50 4.00 6.00 S5.00 6.75 8.00 9.00 9.75 12.25 The 15mm unit is intended for 8mm and 16mm cameras with //3.5 lenses. KIN-O-LUX, INC. 105 West 40th Street New York Theme Center on Type A Kodachrome. The faster panchromatic films record good detail in still shots if they are exposed at one second at //4.5. Rainbow Avenue yields an especially good shot. From a vantage point on the Mall, it is possible to include, in the frame, one of the Four Freedom statues balanced against the distant Trylon and Perisphere, while across the foreground is spread a vista of glowing trees which also seem to grow downward and upside down into the shimmering waters of the reflecting pool. New York's news photographers have found that these compositions are sure fire. It's wise to rove the grounds at night, with an eye cocked for interesting subjects. One worth mentioning is a ten foot fountain of purest Orrefors crystal glass which plays in the garden pool of the Swedish pavilion. The glass sculpture takes the form of a coral reef decorated with symbols in emerald green and ruby red, representing the vegetable and animal life of the sea bed. Illuminated from within, the "reef" is splashed with cascades of water falling in the mirror pool. Night movie shots of it call for full opening of f/1.9, normal camera speed and Type A Kodachrome. Another provocative spot is the Court of Flame, which is the focal point and main entranceway to the $1,000,000 Gas Industries building. A brief description is sufficient to indicate why it should be interesting to the photographer. Surrounded by four, ninety foot pylons suggesting a grid of a gas stove, a vast glass cube, resting on one corner, sends skyward a gas torch of ever changing color. At night, masses of flame climbing the pylons seem to be reaching upward. This continuous movement of flame has been created ingeniously by placing gas jets one above the other in columns, running up the faces of the pylons. A vertical flame, five inches high, burns out of each jet. Each flame overlaps the flame above, thus giving the effect of one stream of moving flame. By means of specially designed thermostatic valves, the proportion of air mixed with the gas is controlled, so that an intricate pattern of yellow and blue flames moves up the pylons in sequence. About 2000 jets on the four pylons provide more than enough light for filming. The diversity of the illuminants at the fair suggests several different movie treatments. The type of new illuminants — traveling gas flames, capillary mercury vapor lights, fluorescent tubes, sodium vapor lamps, etc. — might serve as a central idea to bind together any series of night scenes. An Alice in Wonderland adventure through the prismatic scale is another idea, logical because the fair's exhibit area has been zoned in color, ranging through the scale from violet to red. Since the fluorescent tube glows everywhere, and will show up in almost all night pictures, the amateur should know that he can examine the tube and its qualities, at close range, in a demonstration exhibit in the General Electric building in the Plaza of Light. Here, owners of focusing cameras can obtain ultra closeups of these unique lamps in half a dozen different pastel shades. By use of foot candle meters, the exhibit demonstrates the high efficiency of these softly lighted tubes. At night, the copper plate exterior of the General Electric building offers attractive shots, and especially interesting to movie makers is the illuminated stainless steel, zigzag tower, which suggests a flash of lightning. Facing the Plaza of Light is a wide curtain of white water fountains playing against the illuminated blue wall of the Consolidated Edison Company building. Nearby, the Petroleum Industry building glows like a gigantic blue triangular lighting fixture. Concealed lights paint the gunmetal dome of the "inside out" building of United States Steel. Within a few hundred steps are a thousand bizarre photographic angles. Exposures for exhibits [Continued from page 297] This exhibit offers a chance to make a movie of the entire operation of a railroad without stirring from the building. Across the circle from Railroads is the General Motors building. Go up the ramp into the structure and get into one of the comfortable chairs which will carry you through settings of black magic. Wind your movie camera, settle back and get ready. In a few seconds, there will be unfolded before your eyes a series of the largest and most detailed model landscapes the world has ever seen. Brightly lighted, they are seen through clean glass windows and offer tremendously effective movie material. The traveling chair will carry you from long shot to medium scenes and on to closer views and genuine closeups. It is as if you were flying in a great dirigible high above the countryside, as cities, mountains, meadows and cars shooting along highways are brought into view. For fifteen thrilling minutes, this ride carries you through the world of the future, and dozens of movie shots will be discovered. Sit back and hold your camera as steady as possible. While the shots will not be without the evidence of some camera movement, they will make up in originality for what they might lack in technical excellence. Unfortunately, this is not a good still photographic subject, since, at the tenth of a second exposure necessary with most still camera lenses, the movement of the seats produces fuzzy results.