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Photograph by Metro. "MOVING CAMERA" TECHNIQUE FOR THE AMATEUR This Idea From the Making of Quality Street Calls for Only a Pair of Skates and Amateur Camera to Produce Those Unique "Moving Camera" Effects of the Big Movies
THE CLINIC
Conducted by Dr. Kinema
Experience
TTAVING "shot" many, many rolls ■*■■*■ of 16mm film without an error I began to get a bit cocky. However, I did not take all the credit to myself, as the present precision instruments for taking and showing the films, coupled with the latitude of exposure, makes the taking a comparatively simple matter. I had taken some very beautiful wedding pictures, but I was not at all prepared for what followed. I was asked to make pictures during the wedding of a very good friend of mine and was a little puzzled as to my lights. I finally decided to do the work with two twin arcs drawing a total of 60 amps. This light as the film showed carried ample illumination using a 1-8 lens wide open. In changing the three-fifth lens for the one-eighth a remarkable thing happened.
I screwed the lens, as I thought, "home," or until I could not screw it further. Chump that I was not to look at it! When it was within a scant eighth of an inch of home it stuck — and there remained during the taking of the picture. The result? Every scene was out of focus and a bitter disappointment. Immediately upon screening the film I rushed for the camera, which was now carrying the three-fifth lens. I unscrewed same and replaced with the oneeighth. It turned to the position where it seemed home. Then by taking a pair of pliers I was able to force it beyond the sticking point and into its proper setting.
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A microscopic examination showed no abrasions on either the lens or camera threads, so the two will not have to go to the factory for examination. But never again will I screw a lens in a camera without looking to see that it is what the experts call "home." — C. Bond Lloyd.
Animated Titles
PROM League member W. H. Mc■■■ Cullough, Yakima, Wash., comes the following novel method of making animated titles:
"One of our local amateurs, who is official cinematographer for the American Legion Post here, recently devised a very effective animated title. The title on the screen moves upward, disclosing the lettering line by line, while the background shows an aeroplane flying in back of the letters.
"He did not use the double-exposure method, but took a short piece of positive, which he had previously taken, of an aeroplane cavorting around the sky. This he spliced the proper length to fit in his camera and go around the outside of all the film guides and under the aperture plate, making an endless piece of film which went round and round. The camera was then loaded the regular way with a roll of negative stock, which was threaded behind the loop of positive film. The lettering was shot through the positive aeroplane print.
"The titles were typed on an ordinary typewriter, using the capitals only, on a continuous strip of white paper. The exposure, which was regulated by the stop used, was doubled in this particular case, but is always dependent, of course, on the density of the piece of positive used." (Continued on page 407)
FOR THE HOME NEWS REEL
A Cine Kodak Records Details of the Stone Mountain
Memorial Unveiling.
Photograph by Wide World.