Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

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Additional specifications claimed for the Travis Tapak include a frequency response of 100 to 7000 cps at ± 2 db.; signal-to-noise ratio, — 40 db; rewinds at 44 inches per second; input for crystal or high impedance microphone; high impedance output. The Tapak, complete with its own microphone and monitor headset, lists at $309.50; without mike and monitor it is yours for $298.50. E.K. items Archbold H. Robinson was elected treasurer of the Eastman Kodak Company at a meeting of the firm's board of directors last month. He replaces Marion P. Folsom, who resigned as of the end of 1952 to accept an appointment as Under Secretary of the Treasury in the Eisenhower administration. A new film processing laboratory will be built by Kodak in Palo Alto. Calif., on ten acres of land belonging to Stanford University. It will take over all of the processing functions now handled by EK's lab at 241 Battery Street, in San Francisco. Adolph Stuber. ACL, vicepresident in charge of sales and advertising, has marked his fortieth year with Kodak. He became a vicepresident in 1942. and has been a director since 1947. From review to reward [Continued from page 14] pens as Pop gets the works from a quintet of utterly engaging youngsters, shouldn't happen (as they say) to a dog." What ACL overlooked adding is that, at this one day's close, with Pop sagging on the ropes, he receives a telegram from Mom. "Have decided to spend the weekend with Mother." it reads. "Mr. Efficiency Expert should have no trouble in managing household. It's Duck Soup! Remember?" Planning the scenario to develop this theme was actually the easiest part of the enterprise. We wanted to present the children as naturally as possible, and we reasoned that the easiest way to do this was to involve them in incidents of our family life which had actually happened. Thus, from the film's conception until about two weeks before we started shooting, we compiled a list of just such episodes. Then, two weeks before we started shooting, we wrote our scenario. Although most of the filming was done according to this script, some of the scenes were necessarily varied as the action progressed. PRODUCTION PROBLEMS My original estimate of from three to four days to do the filming fell somewhat short of the actual time required. It took better than twenty full days to do the job! This included my two weeks of vacation, plus several weekends in addition. Actually, from the time we started filming until we completed all the shooting, about five weeks elapsed. We ran into our share of difficulties (and pulled some fool boners, too!) throughout our filming schedule. Early in the operation, we shot 120 feet of Type A Kodachrome outdoors without the well-known filter, and all of it on a rather difficult sequence too. It wasn't much later that I shot another 60 feet outdoors — this time with the filter all right, but without correcting the meter speed setting to compensate for it. I guess the Good Lord must have taken over after that. For from then on things went along pretty smoothly, from the technical standpoint, anyway. EXPENDABLE PROPERTIES But other and unforeseen difficulties cropped up as well. For example, when we started filming the snake sequence — in which Timmy scares the others with a snake he finds in the bushes — the final scene called for him to drop the snake behind him as Pop came bouncing out the back door. We had to re-film that shot several times, since Timmy, in bare feet, was not too enthused about having that snake land near his heels. Also, in the process of getting the variety of scenes that were necessary for this sequence, we wore out two snakes and a third got away before we were through with his thespian services. All told, we used four different snakes before this sequence was in the can. The bread sequence was suggested when we recalled a neighbor telling us about getting a big "kick" out of Timmy coming home from the store, dropping the bread all over the ground when the package broke, then casually yet carefully fitting each slice back into the wrapper. When we committed this to film, it wasn't difficult to gain the same results. But we did have trouble when we wanted the bread wrapping to last long enough — so that the climax would come when we had planned it and not before. Achieving this timing required the use of three consecutive loaves of bread before the sequence was complete. ACTION AND REACTION Toward the end of the film our script called for Gregory (unknown to Pop) to cut Kevin's hair with a pair of electric clippers. When we told him he could go to work on his brother's shaggy locks, Greg didn't know whether to