Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1942)

214 MAY 1942 fjitit deleaved! OFFICIAL FiTmc News Thrills of 1942 VOLUME I ALL THESE HISTORIC SENSATIONAL EVENTS Complete in one home movie BRITISH COMMANDOS IN ACTION JAPS BOMB PEARL HARBOR BATTLE OF SINGAPORE UNITED STATES DECLARES WAR BURNING OF S.S. NORMANDIE RUSSIA STOPS HITLER SHELLING OF ARUBA U.S. NAVY BLASTS MARSHALL ISLANDS Volumes II, III and IV will be released in July 1942, September 1942 and January 1943 respectively. I6MM Sound-on-Film $17.50 I6MM Silent Feature 8.75 I6MM Silent Short 2.75 8MM Silent Feature 5.50 8MM Silent Short 1.75 AT ALL LEADING DEALERS AND FILM RENTAL LIBRARIES Write for literature describing complete line of Official Films. OFFICIAL FILMS, INC. 425 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. Slides KODACHROME Movies Kodaslicles, 50c each: Alaska; Canadian Kockies; Yosemite; Cactus blossoms and desert scenes; Vast California poppy fields; San Francisco: and other subjects. 16mra of the above subjects, 18c per foot, any length. "Moose," 125 feet, dupe, $18.75. 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For shots into the historic Shenandoah Valley, with its patchwork or checkerboard farms, slip a haze filter over the camera lens when you are shooting Kodachrome, or a yellow filter if you are filming in black and white. Filters are really necessary here, for haze is the rule and not the exception. Mount the camera inside your car, on a tripod, and, driving about fifteen miles an hour, film the road as it unwinds before you around sharp curves and along the brink of uncomfortable precipices. An especially effective dolly shot may be made from the moving car, as you drive through the tunnel which has been cut through the side of a mountain. The growing circle at the far end, as the car approaches the opening, is really unusual. If your camera will not run long enough to cover the whole length of the tunnel, hold the camera very tightly to your tripod with one hand and, while the button is locked in "run" position, carefully keep winding the spring with the other hand. The Drive terminates at Lexington, Va. ; thus, it is a perfect continuity link to scenes of Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University, two schools which for generations have been closely associated with the South. A dress parade at V.M.I, is a high light worth having in any film of these parts, and, if you inquire ahead of time about the days on which this event is to be held, you can plan to catch it. In a chapel on the Washington and Lee campus, which incidentally adjoins that of V.M.I., is buried the great Lee himself; although the building itself may be filmed, the recumbent white marble statue of the great Southern leader is not well enough lighted for Kodachrome filming. Don't let that spoil the continuity, though, for many of the circulars issued by the Lexington Chamber of Commerce contain pictures of the statue in such a variety of sizes that one of them is sure to fit your titler. The miracle which is Natural Bridge is just south of Lexington, and a well planned sequence of it will be one of the most treasured in your film. Snapshots of the bridge will be quite flat and meaningless; but, if you create suspense by filming first the sign over the post office, then the entrance house and the path leading down into the gorge and follow these shots by scenes of the tumbling stream, which created the bridge, you can achieve an impressive effect when you finally tilt up to reveal the bridge. Shoot the bridge back lighted against a blue sky, film the 2000 year old arbor vitae trees and the wild flowers which grow along the banks of the stream and finish with a full length picture of the bridge itself. If you are a dual turntable "fan," listen to the music which is being played in the gorge and get some ideas for your own accompaniment later on. Most sacred of the historic shrines of America is Jamestown, where, on May 13, 1607, a small band of courageous Englishmen established what was to become the first permanent English settlement in the New World — the birthplace of our country. Today the visitor to Jamestown can film only a few reminders of the event. They include an old church, which has the original tower of the first brick church erected in 1639. The graveyard has tombs of some of the early settlers. A monument erected by the federal government in 1907 commemorates the 300th anniversary of the first colony, while archeological operations of the federal government are unearthing reminders of 17th Century life in Old Virginia during which Jamestown was the capital of the colony. Although Williamsburg could be the subject of a film in itself, it is certainly a high spot which should be included in any movie of the South. Here is a city so restored to its 18th Century appearance that the visitor feels almost as if he were back in that period of American life. Shops, homes and even public buildings have been replaced exactly as they were over 200 years ago, and there are even ladies and gentlemen in colonial dress to complete the picture. A shot from behind the picket fence of William and Mary College will be a good opener. Scenes of the main street and of the old weather beaten signs and lampposts against the blue sky will help to create atmosphere. The Governor's Palace and the Capitol have been rebuilt brick by brick, and the garden behind the Palace, with its box hedges and arched arbors, will delight any Kodachrome worker. You can heighten interest and provide some humor by taking shots around the Public Gaol, for the keeper, complete in wig and knee breeches, will pose with no coaxing whatever in the stocks and pillory. If you want to include the Deep South in your picture, visit Charleston, S. C. Here is not only America's Old World in the streets of the city, but also remain here signs of the era of Cavaliers, which has inspired so many books and films. In Charleston, be sure to film the old churches, with their fine gates of lacy grille work, the lovely old residences which seem to be the very breath of the old regime and the famous battery on the waterfront which looks out to Fort Sumter; but save the most footage for the gardens of Middletown Place, Cypress and Magnolia. These gardens would be breath taking without their hallowed past; but. if one knows and remembers an old civilization of which they are the last remnants, the entire theme of the garden