Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1948)

MOVIE MAKERS the solenoid to the starting button. This bit of mechanics can be accomplished in any home workshop. Aluminum or strap iron can be worked easily with the aid of only such tools as a bench vise, file, hacksaw and hand drill. Study your camera and determine the simplest method of adapting it to this basic design of automatic timer. Once you have sampled the delights of time lapse filming, you will wonder why you waited so long for this new pleasure. How does your garden grow? [Continued from page 149] through bare patches of soil; they are the first heralds of spring, closely followed by the colorful crocuses. To film these dainty little flowers, only a few inches tall, we fastened our movie camera with a tripod screw to a short board, which was placed flat on the ground. One end of the board was then tilted up sufficiently to get a sky background. If there were still no sky visible to back up the yellow crocus petals, we should use a blue cardboard for this background. AFTER THE FROST This is the time when we build our cold frame on the sunniest spot in the backyard. It is usually a very simple contraption, assembled from odd lengths of boards. Like the window boxes, it is covered with sheets of glass or old glass window frames, to help to keep the heat and moisture inside. You will want a sequence of this important step. When the danger of frost is over, the little indoor plants are transplanted into the flower beds in the garden. Your sequence might start with turning the soil over, to a depth of the spade, and getting it properly fertilized. Then, on a warming, sunny day, out come the flats, and the delicate job of transplanting begins. For each plant must be handled carefully, so that the ball of earth does not shake loose from the fine, hairy roots. FIRST WARM DAYS It is really fun to don the garden overalls on the first warm, spring day. To be sure, I always put up a bit of a fuss when my movie making husband orders me around for this scene and that, interrupting me from following my favored hobby. He has also followed me to the roadside flower stand, filming me as I dashed eagerly from plant flats to potted flowers, as excitedly as if I were buying an Easter bonnet. But it is worth it, on long winter evenings, to see a well planned gardening sequence come to life again. Besides, in the excitement, the flower 173 man gave me fourteen asters instead of counting out a dozen! But, knowing old Kennedy's heart, I suspect now that he did this on purpose. Early spring flowers make one of the finest color displays of the season. The vivid flame azalea, surrounded by blue phlox and white candytuft, or the various yellow daffodils are a combination of colors a movie maker dreams about. Of course, I am talking of color film. After a general view of the flower bed, closeups of the individual blooms, with their contrasting neighbors out of focus in the background, will greatly enhance the sequence. Show them swaying in the breeze, back lighted, or some being picked for bouquets in the sunny living room. As the season advances, there are hundreds of other beauties, such as the airy astilbe, the evening primrose's pale yellow petals, and the stately, sky blue delphiniums. They all are wonderful material for your garden film. Morning dew on the petals will produce gleaming closeups. To show these and other flower closeups at their very best, the background should have contrast. Dark colored flowers want a light background, while yellows, reds and whites crave for the dark blue of the sky or the green foliage just budding in the distance. Of course, spring gardening never ceases. Even after our plants are abloom, we find gaps in the flower border which much be filled with larger plants. WORK AND PLAY But we should not forget also that there is work to be done during the growth of our flowers. Weeding, cultivating, fertilizing, watering and spraying are all in a day's work. The wilted leaves and petals must be pinched off or trimmed back, to get better and healthier plants. All such details will add interest to our film — even the closing scene as you sit exhausted on the stairs of the back porch, delighting in the view of your gloriously colorful flower garden. Like everything else, it was just a bit more than ordinary effort that produced these marvelous results. This will be true for the movie, too. For, proper planning, patience and care will give us a reel of treasured film always ready to be shown, with pride, to our friends. Spring pilgrimage [Continued from page 145] western side of the Basin, shoot in the morning. 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