Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

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54 FEBRUARY 1952 News of the Industry Up to the minute reports on new products and services in the movie field E. K. booklet Better Movies in Color, an attractive and helpful new booklet about making movies, has just been issued by the Eastman Kodak Company. Aimed, says the publisher, directly at the average amateur, the booklet cites as the "big three" of successful color filming sharpness, colorfulness and subject matter interest. Among the specific subjects covered are focus, exposure indoors and out. editing, titling, projection and simple camera tricks. Better Movies in Color contains 24 pages, more than 60 illustrations (with the majority in full color) and numerous simplified charts and diagrams. It is available at your camera dealer's for 35 cents. Ansco On TV lf y°u are interested in seeing how film base is created, coated and qualitycontrol inspected, check your television program listings for the Industry on Parade show, sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers over NBC-TV stations. The activities of Ansco, at Binghamton, N. Y., are the subject on reel No. 62 of this Industry show series. The fifteen minute program is scheduled for airing in 56 U. S. cities. Lighting bars Two new lighting bars are now on the market from James H. Smith & Sons Corporation, manufacturers of the widely liked Victor lighting units. Simplest of the two sets is the Victor Bar-Lite 12, which hand-holds two reflector-flood lamps in a fixed position VICTOR TRI-FLOOD lighting unit offers three lamps on swiveled, clamp-on mount at $7.95. GARY COOPER, on vacation with his wife (left) and his daughter Maria, pauses on the summit of Dollar Mountain to line up his Filmo Automaster. flanking the camera. $5.95 without the lamps. More versatile is the Victor Tri-Flood (model L-38), which mounts three reflector-floods on a universal swivel and provides for clamp-on positioning on any % inch stand. A 15 foot cord, but no lamps, goes with the Tri-Flood at $7.95. Slide file One hundred 2 by 2 inch glassed slides, or 200 in cardboard readymounts. may be stored in the new Dias slide file — which is designed to look like a leather-bound book. The price is $7.50. Write to Camera Specialty Company. 50 West 29th Street. New York 1, N. Y.. for the name of your nearest retail dealer. Exposure dial Offered free with every Mayfair lighting-bar unit is a new indoor exposure calculator operating on the dial principle. The unit estimates exposure at every lens setting from //1.4 to //22 and at shutter speeds from % to 1/200 of a second — including movies. Literature on the lighting units may be had on request to Mayfair Manufacturing Company. 55 Eckford Street, Brooklyn 22. N. Y. Fotofade effects Craig Fotofade, a water soluble dye into which films may be dipped to produce fades or wipes, is once again available to the amateur filmer. The product works equally well on new or old stock, color or black and white, and requires no special experience or equipment for its use. The techniques of Craig Fotofade dyeing are discussed in Tips and Tricks of Movie Editing, the popular Craig booklet now in its fourth printing. For your complimentary copy, write to Craig. Inc., Plainville. Conn. Camera clamp A new clamp-on camera support, which can be fastened quickly to the table, back of a chair, a door or any similar projection, is now at your dealer's. Made of aluminum alloy, the unit provides for controlled horizontal or vertical adjustment, and it lias both American and European tripod bush ings on the universal-jointed head. Overall length is 7% inches, weight 7 ounces, price $3.95. Exakta Camera Company. 46 West 29th Street, New York 1, N. Y., is the distributor. Film Saver Protecto-Film. a liquid coating which has been used professionally for 18 years in preserving, cleaning and protecting film from ordinary scratches, is now being offered the amateur movie maker. The product may be purchased at your photo dealer or direct from the producers. Standard Film Processing Company, 723 Seventh Avenue. New York 19. N. Y. $100 reward National Cinema Service. 71 Dey Street, New York City, is offering a $100 reward for the return of six 16mm. sound films rented to a customer in the Midwest and thus far not returned. The films are Swiss Family Robinson, Northwest Stampede, Trade Winds, The Hairy Ape, Ruthless and Bohemian Girl. If one or more of these films is offered you, you are requested by National Cinema Service to notify the police at Madison, Wise, or your local postal inspector. Once over lightly Ansco Color Daylight Type and Ansco Supreme black and white are now available in No. 828 rollfilm loadings ... Of 43.059 employee suggestions for the improvement of E.K. products. 14.558 were accepted in 1951 for a total in idea awards of $241,063 — a new high . . . The Wilcox Gav Com CAMERA CLAMP, convenient for shootino in tight corners or without a tripod, is distributed by Exakta Camera Company at $3.95.