Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

278 OCTOBER 1952 Classified advertising 10 Cents a Word Minimum Charge $2 ■ Cash required with order. The closing date for the receipt of copy is the tenth of the month preceding issue. Remittance to cover goods offered for sale in this department should be made to the advertiser and not to Movie Makers. New classified advertisers are requested to furnish references. EQUIPMENT FOR SALE | BASS . . . Chicago. Cinema headquarters for 42 years offers money saving buys in guaranteed used equipment. 8mm. Kodak Model 25, //2.7 lens, S32.50; Cine Special I, 1" f/1.9, comb, case, S375.00; H-16 Bolex, 1" f/2.7 Tessar, %" f/1.5 H.M. w.a., 3" f/4 Wollensak, case, S225.00; 16mm. B&H Auto Load Magazine, 1" f/1.9, $89.50; 16mm. Eastman Kodak Model B, //3.5 lens, S32.50; equal to new RCA Model 400 sound proj., $540.00 value for $299.50; Kodascope Model FB-40 sound projector, $220.00. Best buys . . . best trades always. BASS CAMERA Co., Dept. CC, 179 W. Madison St. Chicago 2, 111. B SYNCHRONOUS magnetic recorder, professional quality. Also 18 makes tape recorders, bargain prices. MAGNETIC RECORDERS CO., 7120-B Melrose Ave., Los Angeles 46, Calif. ■ BOLEX Standard 8mm., f/1.5 Switar, $225.00; B&H Companion 8mm. camera, //2.8, $56.00; EK Model #60, 8mm., f/1.9 lens, $49.50; Keystone 8mm., f/1.9 lens, $29.50; Natco sound projector, L.N., $195.00; Revere SOF projector, guaranteed, $195.00; Movie Mite SOF projector, L.N., $150.00. Equipment and film bargain lists free, state MM. FRANK LANE, 5 Little Bldg., Boston, Mass. ■ PERFECTLY CENTERED TITLES with any movie camera by using Bull's Eye Camera Centering System. Complete kit, $2.95 postpaid. Satisfaction guaranteed. BULL'S EYE PHOTO PRODUCTS, Box 8174, Plaza Station, Kansas City, Missouri. ■ SIEMENS MAGAZINES, 16mm., just arrived: brand new. $3.50 each; used, $2.50 each. BOX 293, c/o MOVIE MAKERS. | YOUR domestic or foreign motion picture magazines loaded with B&W or color film, processing included. BOX 294, c/o MOVIE MAKERS. ■ PRICES slashed! Bell & Howell Utility sound projector, 2 case, 12" speaker, complete $179.00; Victor 40, $129.00; Universal, $89 00; Apollo, $69.00. Trades accepted. Like new Castle sound films, $8.95. Crystal microphone, $9.50; record attachment for sound projector, $17.50; 1600' reels, like new, 4 for $5.50; slightly bent, 6 for $5.00. Illustravox Sr. 35mm. strip and record player, $49.50; Keystone 1000 W. 314x4 slide projector, $69.50; movie camera pan-head, $1.95. We buy, sell, trade, repair movie outfits Large sound film rental library. Free catalog. NATIONAL CINEMA SERVICE, 71 Dey St., New York 7, N. Y. FILMS FOR RENTAL OR SALE ■ NATURAL COLOR SLIDES, Scenic, National Parks, Cities, Animals, Flowers, etc. Sets of eight, $1.95; Sample & list, 25«l. SLIDES, Box 206, La Habra, Calif. ■ EDENART has all subjects. Send 25£ for complete listing and sample. State subject preferred. EDENART, Box 608, Woodmere, L. I., N. Y. ■ 16mm. PHOTOGRAPHERS make your color film spectacular. Add gorgeous original professional action and scenic shots of Alaska, Mexico, Alps, London, Paris, rapids canoeing. NEIL DOUGLAS, famed explorer, Box 664, Meriden, Conn. FILMS WANTED ■ WANTED to buy 8 & 16mm. color movies of circus subjects. Originals or duplicates train scenes, lot scenes, anything about the circus. C. SIEDELL, 1551 No. 32 St., Lincoln 3, Nebraska. MISCELLANEOUS ■ KODACHROME DUPLICATES: 8mm. or 16mm., llfr per foot. Immediate service on mail orders. HOLLYWOOD 16MM INDUSTRIES, Inc., 6060 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. ■ SOUND RECORDING at a reasonable cost. High fidelity 16 or 35. Quality guaranteed. Complete studio and laboratory services. Color printing and lacquer coating. ESCAR MOTION PICTURE SERVICE, Inc., 7315 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland 3, Ohio. Phone: Endicott 1-2707. ■ 8mm. HOLLYWOOD TITLE STUDIO 16mm. Complete titling service. Color and black and white. SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO AMATEUR CINEMA LEAGUE MEMBERS. Send lOf* for Price List and Sample. Address: 1060 North Vista Street, Hollywood 46, Calif. T. J. HARGRAVE, chairman of the board of the Eastman Kodak Company, receives 25-year pin from R. G. Satterwhite, president of Kodak's 25 Year Club. Dr. A. K. Chapman, Kodak president, presented the Eastman Memorial Medal. in the northern United States, No. 34 for latitudes in the southern U.S. It retails at fifty cents direct from the manufacturer, Crocker Films, Inc., 108 Marlboro Street. Boston 16, Mass. c:l~„. «.« £lm;n« Good news for Films on turning — harassed movie club program chairmen is the six reel series of films on filming produced and distributed by the Harmon Foundation, 140 Nassau Street, New York City. The pictures, which are one reel each of 16mm. silent film, include the following titles: How To Use Your Camera, Common Mistakes and Their Correction, Exposure and Exposure Meters, Film Editing, How To Use Filters and Lenses and Their Uses. They may be rented separately or in series, at $2.00 per subject per showing. Ideas pay A total 0I 7465 suggestions— more than one in every three submitted by Kodak men and women during the first half of 1952 — have been adopted by the company, for a total in cash awards of $129,242 over the period. The grand total under EK's idea award system has now mounted to $1,532,000 since the practice was established by George Eastman in 1898. Appointments J M McBride is the new western sales manager for Ansco . . . Kodak has named N. S. Kocher manager of film manufacturing. Dr. L. K. Eilers, assistant manager . . . Kalmann Spelletich, jr., now is assistant sales manager at Victor Animatograph. Sherman Price, wartime producer of Fighting the Fire Bomb, has been named director of distribution for Princeton Film Center . . . Radiant Screen has appointed E. L. Schroeder midwest district manager ... J. P. Salis is now with Kalart, distributors of the Craig splicer, as technical sales representative in the midwest. Bull's-eye Based on the familiar title target method of camera alignment, the Bull's-Eye Camera Centering kit now makes that system available commercially in one handy assembly. Included in the kit are three targets of varying sizes (3V2 by 4%, iy2 by 10y2 and 12 by 16 inches) , as well as an eight page illustrated instruction booklet. The Bull"s-Eye Camera Centering kit was prepared by John C. Sherard, founder president of the 8-16 Home Movie Makers. ACL, club in Kansas City. Mo. It is being offered for sale, at $2.95, by Bull's-Eye Photo Products Company. P.O. Box 8174. Plaza Station, Kansas City, Mo. Take 'our titlin § eas^ [Continued from page 274] gan by filling a large photo-darkroom tray with wet, hard-packed sand. (Any tray will do, of course, as long as it is large enough so that its edges keep out of the picture area. ) Block letters of a contrasting color were then impressed into the sand and measures were initiated to create some likely-looking "sea water." A few drops of laundry blueing in a bucket of water imparted the desired color: a handful of soap chips whipped into solution made the expected bubbles, and a pinch of powdered chalk created that foamy look of breaking waves. With the title wording upside down to the camera, a few feet of the exposed title were shot and then the bucket of sea water was slopped in to inundate the lettering. By shooting at 32 frames per second, the movement of the water was slowed just enough to give it a sense of bulk and weight necessary to the illusion. When the finished scene was reversed end for end in editing, the effect of a wave rolling and foaming away to reveal the title was remarkable. Variations of this reverse motion technique involving the use of "blow-away" letters are limited only by the subject matter of the film and the imagination of the filmer. Let's consider, for example, two of the most popular of amateur picture subjects — the birthday party and the wedding. For the birthday, why not outline a simple lead title with the pinpoints of light from candles on a cake? As you film it. the actual action would run, say, three feet of the illumined title and then three feet of the birthday boy blowing out the candles. But treated in reverse motion, the effect on the screen would show your moppet making with the magic as he seems to blow flames onto the candle tips. And for the wedding film, of course, it should be an easy exercise to lay out your caption in lines of colored confetti which, after a moment, are blown into oblivion by the breath of an electric fan. Other ideas for other subjects might include fall leaves for that film of autumn's annual show, tiny spring flowers for . . . well, you get the idea.