Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1948)

226 JUNE 1948 FOR PERFECT PROJECTION Ask for Gevaert 16 mm cine reversal film (100 ft. Daylight loading) IN THREE PAN SPEEDS ULTRA PAN REVERSIBLE — High speed Panchromatic film ideally suited for speed requirements under difficult and limited lighting conditions either indoors or outdoors. SUPER PAN REVERSIBLE — An all purpose film, medium speed, for use under artificial light and for superior outdoor work, the top quality answer. It's fine grain emulsion assures theatre projection. MICRO PAN REVERSIBLE-This fully colorcorrected Pan film is unusually fine grain. Because of its wide latitude, it is especially recommended for outdoor scenes and available at an economy price. DOUBLE 8mm CINE REVERSAL (25 ft. Double 8mm Camera Spool) IN TWO PAN SPEEDS This excellent Double 8mm motion picture film available in two pan speeds; Micro Pan Reversible, and Super Pan Reversible with the same characteristics as described above. All Gevaert Cine Films have anti-halo backing assuring sharp definition. The GEVAERT Company of America, Inc. Williamstown, Mass. BRANCHES OFFICES: New York City 19-423 West 55th Street. Chicago 6-150 No. Wocker Drive, tos Angeles 38-6370 Santa Monica Blvd. Dallas-1604 Young St. IN CANADA: Gevaert (Canada) Limited, 345 Adelaide St. W Toronto, 2B. This department has been added to Movie Makers because you. the reader, asked for it. We welcome it to our columns. This is your place to sound off. Send us your comments, complaints or compliments. Address: The Reader Writes, Movie Makers, 420 Lexington Ave., New York 17, N. Y. STORY BOARD HELPS Gentlemen: I enjoyed your Story Board layout in April Movie Makers very much. Although it's work, good movies can't be made on inspiration alone. I made Nantucket Turnabout that way, but I have come to realize that there was lots of luck in the final result. Richard V. Elms, ACL Great Neck. N. Y. Dear Movie Makers: Kenneth Stubbs, in Planning With Pictures, ably sums up his case in the last paragraph by stating: "You will find that your story board works for you. When you are satisfied with its development, you may then be positive that you will produce the finest movie you have made thus far." Amen to that! Although I always work with written outlines, the final results invariably lack a few scenes which would have smoothed out the continuity. No doubt this could be eliminated by a well made story board. The advice we amateurs need to have hammered into us most of all is planning. Planning and PLANNING! Then, when the planning is complete, shoot. Harlan M. Webber, ACL Schenectady. N. Y. Artist and writer Stubbs has more to say on adapting the story board technique to amateur filming. If Movie Makers readers want to hear it, they should let us know. WELCOME TO VIENNA Dear Sirs: If some of your ACL members visit Austria in the future, let them know my address. I will be glad to welcome these movie makers in Vienna and to show them my home town. Max Schutte Doblinger-Gurtel 8./5 Vienna XIX. Austria LEAGUE LEADER IN COLOR Dear Movie Makers: After reading in the April issue of Movie Makers the percentages of color and black and white films which were submitted in the 1947 Ten Best contest, it seems a waste of time and monev for the League to issue membership leaders in black and white. Wouldn't it be better to offer these in color? I would gladly pay an additional charge for a Kodachrome leader. O. L. Tapp, ACL Salt Lake City, Utah It would be better, indeed! A League leader in Kodachrome, long delayed, is now in planning. EXPOSURE PROBLEM Dear Editor: In re Messrs. Boichot and Heffernan and the exposure problem— "'overexpose" a light object and "underexpose" a dark colored object, etc. Exposure indicated by the meter will render the area read at the middle part of the reproduced tone scale. That would make a light area read by the meter too dark. So boost it by increasing exposure. But if you read a dark object and reproduced it as a middle gray, it doesn't look good. So move it down the scale by reducing exposure. Weston has their "A" and "C" positions which do it automatically. Elwood Ward Lake Hiawatha. N. J. To a degree. The "A" and "C" positions flanking the "normal" arrow on the Weston meter dial indicate one full stop less and one full stop more exposure, respectively, than the normal position. As such, they also mark the exposure range of color film, which is 1 to 4. In view of this short range. Weston does recommend, for a good overall exposure, setting the "C" position opposite the light value measured from a scene's brightest color — thus confirming reader Ward's comment. SPLINTERS PLEASES Dear Sirs: Thanks for your editorial. Splinters, in April Movie Makers. It's people like Mr. Hartshorn who take the joy out of life. Gilbert Giebel, ACL Fond Du Lac, Wise. FILMS FOR THE FEW? Gentlemen: I would like to suggest that, in addition to your reviews of Hollywood films, you institute as a regular feature extended reviews of non-Hollywood films such as Beauty and the Beast, Farrebiqwe, The Stone Flower, Furia and The Raven. Such films seldom circulate outside of a few big cities. But with your New York location it should be possible to