Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

382 KODAK'S Flurollte enlarger blazes new trails with its integrating sphere lamphouse. Precoiled power cord keeps things trim. GE prices down An across-theboard retail price reduction on all photoflash lamps has been announced by General Electric's lamp department. Largest reduction affected the most popular size of photoflash bulb, the No. 5. which drops in price from fourteen to twelve cents. All flash bulbs other than the No. "5 and No. 22B, which also was cut two rents, were reduced one cent in price. PrestO-Splker Prestoseal Manufacturing Corporation, producers of an electric automatic splicer for use on magnetic recording tape, is now marketing the PrestoSplicer Professional Model, designed to splice 35mm. and 16mm. safety motion picture film, as well as magnetic tape. The splicer handles all types of -afety film base, including the new Tri-acetate stock. Its operating principle is a combination of controlled heat and pressure, applied in precise, automatically controlled time cycles. No scraping or cementing is necessary, and the buttwelded ends do not add any thickness to the film. Full information on the Presto-Splicer may be had from Leonard A. Herzig. sales manager, Prestoseal Manufacturing Corporation. 38-01 Queens Boulevard. Long Island City, \. Y. Kodak enlargers A revolutionary new type of photographic enlarger. expected to have wide application as a camera and title making and copying device, lias been announced by the Eastman Kodak Company. Two models of the new unit — the Kodak Flurolite enlarger and the Kodak Hobbyist enlarger — will accept negatives or transparencies from 35mm. to 2J/4 by 3% inches. The Kodak Flurolite enlarger prosides the basis for a complete 2^ by 314 inch photographic outfit. Two dif KODAK'S new lamphouse also appears in the Hobbyist enlarger, a model devised for the economically minded. $47.50, including tax. ferent camera backs can be fitted to the unit to equip it for the production of either 2 by 2 inch color slides or 2% by 3a4 inch negatives. The camera unit can be used either on the enlarger stand for copying or title making purposes, or as an independent view camera unit with swinging and revolving back for slide production purposes. The camera bellows will permit infinity with 101mm. focal length lenses. As an enlarger, the new unit is particularly well suited to the production of color prints and separation negatives. Because of a new, spherical design of the lamphouse, the Kodak Flurolite enlarger is approximately six times as efficient, watt for watt, as condenser enlargers heretofore available. It is approximately thirty five times as efficient as standard diffusion type enlargers. It will be priced at $112.50, including federal tax, and will be available this month. The Kodak Hobbyist enlarger is a low priced enlarger that enables photographers to do their enlarging without frills or adjustments. Priced at $47.50. tax included, it features the same new lamphouse design as the Kodak Flurolite enlarger. On the market in November. DeJur reduction Retail price of the DeJur Dual Professional Lifetime exposure meter lias been lowered from $32.50 to $24.50. federal tax included. Measuring both reflected and incident light, the meter is manufactured by Dejur-Amsco Corporation. 45-01 Northern Boulevard. Long Island City 1. N. Y. Eastman House Opening date for George Eastman House will be November 9, according to an announcement by Dr. C. E. Kenneth Mees, president of the photographic center in Rochester. N. Y. News of the Industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field Plans for the opening include ceremonies to be held in both the Eastman Theater and the House. Construction of the Dryden Theater will begin shortly after the opening of the photographic center. The theater, a gift of Mr. and Mrs. George B. Dryden, of Evanston, 111., will cost about $200,000. George Eastman House, built in 1905 by George Eastman for himself and his mother, was set up as an independent photographic educational institute in June, 1947. Mr. Eastman had bequeathed the mansion to the University of Rochester at the time of his death in 1932, as a home for the university's president. .>; 35th edition Association Films, Inc., announces the release of the thirty fifth edition of its catalog of selected motion pictures, listing more than 1300 titles. Requests for the catalog may be sent to Association Films, Inc., at 35 West 45th Street, New York 19, N. Y.; 206 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111.; 3012 Maple Avenue, Dallas, Texas, or 351 Turk Street, San Francisco, Calif. Ampro Stylist The Ampro Stylist, a one-case, portable 16mm. sound projector, weighs less than 29 pounds and sells for $325.00. The Stylist features an 8 inch Alnico speaker and many magnesium and plas LIGHTWEIGHT and low cost mark the Ampro Stylist, a 16mm. sound projector that weighs less than 29 pounds.