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VICTOR ANCONA, ACL, AND EMANUEL BARON
IF YOU are a movie maker in search of new techniques in producing backgrounds for your titles, you may well consider the photogram. Introduced and furthered through experiments by two outstanding photographers, Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, the photogram has already gained wide interest and acceptance by the photographic fraternity. It is now ready to serve your needs as a filmer. Since it is definitely a photographic medium, it lends itself admirably to title backgrounds, blending well with the rest of your films, yet
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Little skill is required to produce the possible infinite variety of semiabstract. decorative patterns. You will have fun making them, and your friends will applaud your efforts.
A photogram, in case the term is new to you, is an image produced on sensitized paper, by means of objects placed between the paper and the light source. The result is a photographic image obtained without a camera.
As an example, let us take the photogram reproduced on the cover of Movie Makers that you are now reading. To make a similar photogram, you go about it in this way.
First, you will have to have the "objects" to place on the sensitized paper. Since the subject of the photogram you are about to make is movie making, get together most of the equipment that you use in your cine work, such as camera, tripod, reels, film, lenses and so forth. The best objects to use are those possessing a characteristic shape that is easily recognizable. If it is not practical to use the actual objects, because of their size (for example, a tripod or large camera), cut out of ordinary paper simple silhouette outlines of the objects. Cut the same object in different sizes, to secure an interesting composition.
Silhouettes can also be cut out of materials having a varying degree of transparency and texture, such as celluloid, cellophane and cloth, which provide the most unusual effects. The second step takes place in the darkroom, where you have prepared the necessary equipment for ordinary printing and developing. Take a piece of sensitized contact printing paper, the size you wish your photogram to be, and arrange, in a good composition, the objects and the silhouettes on the paper.
You are now ready to expose your composition to light. Be sure that the light you use is flexible, so that you can move it from side to side, near or far from the paper. In the case of the cover design, an ordinary flashlight was used, [Continued on page 479]