Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1947)

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To compensate for excessive blue sky reflection and ultraviolet content, Ansco has supplied a series of three ultraviolet absorbing filters, to correct for varying degrees of such light. Recent tests indicate that a more satisfactory and truer color quality can be obtained if one of these filters is employed at all times when shooting exteriors with Ansco Color. Early in the morning" and late in the afternoon, the direct rays of sunlight are much redder than at high noon. It is, therefore, a good general rule to confine your shooting of exteriors to within two hours after sunrise and two hours before sundown. The average light from an overcast sky will approximate 6500° K, while clear blue skylight alone will produce color temperatures ranging from 12.000° to 26.000° K. Thus, subjects illuminated principally by blue skylight will appear excessively blue. To balance for this condition, it is necessary to eliminate the blue excess by means of yellowish color compensating filters or ultraviolet absorbing filters. For interior shooting with artificial light sources, Kodachrome Type A film has been balanced to match the color temperature produced by Photoflood or color projection (CP) lamps. Such illumination is rich in red orange radiations and deficient in blue violet radiations, as compared with sunlight. The film, therefore, is necessarily extremely sensitive to blue violet and has been balanced to a temperature of approximately 3400° K. Ansco Tungsten type color film has been well balanced for use with Mazda type studio lights which have a lower color temperature than Photofloods or CP lamps. The color balance of Ansco is approximately 3200° K, 200° less than Kodachrome Type A. Remember that a variation in color temperature of only 100° K will register on color film. The color temperature of incandescent light sources will change about 10° K for each change of one volt of current supplying that lamp. Therefore, it is important that the recommended voltage, usually 115 or 120 volts, be maintained at a constant level. Color temperatures of the lamps should either be checked regularly, by means of a rheostat voltmeter attached to the line supplying the lamp or by means of a JANUARY 1947 color temperature meter. The length of time that a lamp is used for color work also has a direct bearing on its color temperature. For this reason, if a Photoflood, CP or studio type lamp is used for more than one and a half hours of actual burning time, it should be carefully checked for any departure from its rated color temperature. Exterior type color films are balanced for the high blue content of sunlight or daylight, and the interior type films for the abundance of red in artificial light sources. It is, therefore, unwise to combine these two sources of illumination in shooting either with interior or exterior type films. Daylight blue Photofloods are not an exact substitute for daylight, because of their lower Kelvin rating (4800°) which will render an overall reddish result. Their use as a main source of illumination with daylight Kodachrome is, therefore, not recommended. The fact, however, that either of these emulsions, when exposed through the proper filter, may be used successfully under its opposing light source is well known; and it will be discussed in a later part of this series. (Part 2 of Controlling Color will follow in an early number of Movie Makers.) Fun in birthday films [Continued from page 19] and then the lighted cake, followed by more closeups of the youngsters, and finally the opening of the gifts, with the final shot of Billy and his new found love, a toy tractor. The title — That evening — introduces the family relaxing in the living room after the full events of the day. Mother is sewing, Daddy is reclining on the davenport reading, while the boys are before the fireplace playing with their blocks. Mother is reminiscing, as she looks down at Billy. She looks across toward Dad and says. "It seems onlyyesterday that he was the new arrival." A closeup of Mother, looking off daydreaming, fades into a shot of Billy, just a few weeks old. having his bath, followed by a succession of baby shots taken when he was one and three months old. Then there is a straight cut to a title . . . "and before ive knew it he was . . . " — shots of Billy crawling, eating and walking lead to another title, "Then he had his first ..." followed by haircut closeup in a barber shop. Next appears the title, Time really flies!, and Bill comes tearing down the driveway on his tricycle. The scene fades into one of Mother, a continuation of the preceding closeup. Dad looks up from his reading and says, "Yes, and before he knows it, he ivill be ... " Then we see a closeup of Billy wearing