Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

24 News of the Industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field $1000 roller F°r suggesting the elimination of an unnecessary film roller from the Filmosound projector, R. F. Lange received last month from the Bell & Howell Company a $1000 award and a diamond pin. Mr. Lange's idea was submitted to the •ompany's Suggestion System, known as the "fifty-fifty plan" because it distributes one half of the first year's savings from a suggestion to the suggestor. Employees whose ideas save the company over $1000 in a single year also receive the diamond pin. Catalogs ^f primary interest to the still camera fan will be (1) the 74 page annual catalog of Burke & James, Inc., free on request to 321 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, and (2) the 88 page data booklet, DuPont Photographic Films, available from photo dealers at 35 cents. Color data ^n response to numerous requests, the four sections of the Kodak Color Handbook, a basic manual on still photography in color, are now being offered as individual color data books. These are Color as Seen and Photographed, 68 pp., $1.00; Color Photography Outdoors, 56 pp., 50 cents; Color Photography in the Studio, 64 pp., 50 cents, and Kodak Color Films, 66 pp.. 50 cents. The Kodak Color Handbook will still be available as a unit at $4. Mood music Twenty eight new selections on 11 records have been added to the library of mood and "bridge" music offered by Harmonic Recordings. A record list and the company's basic catalog of 60 other such discs are available on request to Audio-Master Corporation, 341 Madison Avenue. New York 17, N. Y. Aid V.S.P. Planned as a benefit for the Volunteer Service Photographers, the Third Annual Dinner Dance of the Photographic Industry will be held this year on February 20 at the Starlight Roof of the WaldorfAstoria, in New York City. As usual, artists of the stage, screen and airways will contribute entertainment. The VSP maintains a nation-wide program of rehabilitation for service men through still photography. The R. F. LANGE, left, receives $1000 award as C. G. Schreyer and W. E. Roberts, all of Bell & Howell, check unneeded roller on projector. Amateur Cinema League is listed as one of the cooperating groups for the dinner, and League President Joseph J. Harley. FACL. and Mrs. Harley are among the patrons. Reservations are scaled at $10 per person, with checks payable to Volunteer Service Photographers, Inc., 292 Madison Avenue. New York 17, N. Y. Forty for Mees Dr C E Kenneth Mees, vicepresident in charge of research for the Eastman Kodak Company and a world authority on photography, completed forty years of service with the company this month. Dr. Mees. son of a Wesleyan minister in England, came to the United States from the firm of Wratten & Wainwright in 1912. when George Eastman asked him to organize and direct a research laboratory for Kodak. He is the author of some 150 publications, including more than 100 scientific papers and books. Old films saved A gift of $100, 000 has been made to George Eastman House, in Rochester, N. Y., to be used for acquiring and preserving historical motion pictures for future study. Central in the salvage operations will be the duplication of the old movies, which are on perishable nitrate stock, on modern acetate safety base. The gift was made by L. Corrin Strong, of Washington, D. C, as a memorial to Henry A. Strong, an early financial associate of George Eastman. Lens "look-see" lf reasonably enough, you would like to know before buying how scenes will look through this or that focal length of lens, a device recently developed by the Bausch & Lomb Optical Company is the answer to your interest. Known as the Animar Lens Demonstrator, this new optical instrument is JANUARY 1952 similar in design to a simple telescope, with the addition of a revolving turret holding three 8mm. or 16mm. lenses at a time. By focusing on a given subject and revolving the turret from lens to lens, you can check for yourself how the wide angle, say. differs from the standard lens in its rendition of such factors as field coverage, depth of field and perspective. Several hundred demonstrators, says B & L, are being distribu ed to leading camera stores across the country. Making that splice [Continued from page 12] resistor. This rod and the bracket act as a thermal coupler in conducting the heat to the anvil. Be sure to make an insulating cover to enclose the resistor as a safety measure to prevent shock. Copper, brass or aluminum may be used to make the heater mounting bracket. And now we are ready to make a splice. Plug in the heater unit and allow about fifteen minutes for it to warm up. Be sure your film cement is fresh. Your film and your photographic efforts surely are worth a fresh bottle of cement to insure good strong splices. Wet scraping should be used with this type of splice, so we will need a small dish for water and a piece of hard felt for moistening the film emulsion. Shear off the right hand film strip as usual: but I believe the left hand strip must extend over the anvil by one or more frames to protect it during scraping. Bend the end of film down (see Fig. 3) and you are ready for scraping. When scraping, always draw the scraper towards the perforations and do not use pressure. The emulsion will come off the film base smoothly and cleanly if it is sufficiently softened by the moisture. However, beware of too much moisture entering the film base. Moisture in the film base will always show up in the splice as milky white spots, the same effect a drop of water would cause on the varnished surface of a table. If your splice shows up milky white, you'd better make another, for it's sure to break. Now the purpose of the anvil heater is to evaporate the moisture quickly. It will readily speed up the splicing operation and produce moisture-free splices, if you pay close attention to your operating technique. The heater will also cause the cement to set faster, so that you will have to work fast after applying the cement. And one important point in the cementing operation: after drawing the brush across the scraped, left film, touch the brush to the outer tips of the right hand film strip as shown in Fig. 3. This is necessary to make a firm weld on these small tips. After applying cement, do not