Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

* * * * GIVE THE CAMERA PREFERRED BY AMERICA'S FOREMOST CAMERAMEN Don Sykes Top Cameraman for Television's Outstanding Feature Series" Roving Cameras" uses the Bolex H-16 ; NEW! BOLEX EYE-LEVEL FOCUS! * • All new Bolex H-16 and H-n cameras • • now include this fine precision instru • • inent that lets you focus through the • • lens, from behind the camera . . . and at • • //'/ increase in price! • Here's why DON SYKES prefers the BOLEX H-16 Automatic Threading: No need to use expensive magazine-loaded films. Bolex automatic threading eliminates all danger of imperfect threading. Turret Head for Three Lenses: Accommodates standard "A" or "C" type mounts. Tri-focal Tubular Viewfinder: With exact fields for 15mm, 1" and ,'i" lenses as standard equipment, viewfinder provides for absolute correction of parallax down to is inches. Invaluable for title and closeup work. Critical Visual Focusing: Groundglass focusing for instant and accurate focus through the lens; magnifies image 15 diameters. Focal Plane Type Shutter: Rotating disc, inn' opening, revolves only 118/1000 of an inch from emulsion side of film preventing linear distortion and giving faultless registration on the film. This is a Iiolex exclusive. Frame Counter: Accurate frame counters add or subtract automatically. Footage Counter: Adds and subtracts accurately in forward and reverse. Audible Footage Indicator: You hear a click with passage of each 10 inches of film. Variable Speeds: Speed range is 8, 10. 21. 32, lit and all intermediate. The governor maintains constant speed with the closest tolerance. Hand Crank Operation: Either forward or reverse hand cranking is standard equipment. Speed is governor-controlled and ana amount of film can he cranked in either direction. Dissolves, fades, tricks ure easy. Single Frame Exposures: lakes stills or animated sequences at 1/20 to 1/25 second exposures, or with "time' exposure. Pressure Plate: Maintains firm, precise pressure on film, insuring rock-steady pictures, Single Claw Operation: Designed to permit adaptation for use with sound film. The Bolex is a precision instrument built like Hi'' finest Swiss watch im Sinss craftsmen. Scenes From Actual "Roving Cameras" Story Shot With Bolex H-16. Breathtaking beauty— breath-taking photographs— these enlarged frames taken by Don Sykes. Such fine enlargements are possible— even on paper— because the pictures were taken with a Bolex H-16. In combination with its Kern-Paillard* Lenses, the exclusive shutter mechanism of the Bolex H-16 assures faultless registration of the image on the film— in color or black-and-white. The BOLEX H-16 Less lens, $282. SO no Fed. tax A BEAUTY WINNER ill its OWI1 class is the Bolex H-16— unhesitating choice of advanced amateur and professional movie makers. Discriminating cameramen revel in its ease of operation, its gadgetless compactness. The skill of Swiss craftsmanship has fashioned the Bolex H-16 into a superbly responsive instrument—dependable under all conditions and in every climate. Kern-Paillard Lenses for the Bolex H-16 Switar 1" f/1.4 . s l m :{ . Fori. Pizar 1" f/1.5 S 97.00 . Yvar 15mm f/2.8 $ 78.75 '■"■' Yvar 3" f/2„> $128.3 f "• -KERN-PAILLARD LENSES are respected throughout the world for their consistent high quality. Available in Switar 1" f/1.4, Pizar 1" f/1.5, Yvar 15mm f/2.8 and Yvar 3" f/2.5. Note: The Switar 1" f/1.4 is as fine as any speed lens ever made for the 16mm field. *") VofiC M0T|0N \)0 -VEST CAMERAS WRITE TODAY fur descriptive folder MM-129 on camera and lenses to: PAILLARD PRODUCTS, INC., 265 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK 16, N. Y. Holes Cameras are sold and serviced through leading camera dealers everywhere.