Movie Makers (Jun-Dec 1928)

VANITY KODAKS TNCOMPARABLY beautiful ■* in color and design, the Vanity Kodak is all that the modern Commencement, Wedding, Birthday gift should be. A small, highly efficient camera, beautifully gotten up in colored leathers and enclosed in cases so fascinating that one yearns to carry them. AT OUR STORE NOW IN FIVE COLORS Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc. The Kodak Corner . . . Madison at 45th Branch Store, 235 West 23rd Let the BURTON HOLMES LABORATORY DO YOUR MOTION PICTURE WORK Contact Printing of 16 mm. scientifically tested and correctly timed CAREFUL DEVELOPING 35 and 16 mm. * * REDUCTION PRINTING * * ENLARGING TO 35 MM. MASTER POSITIVES and DUPES Both sixes on duplicating stock with proper wratten filters on special copying printers. 7510 N. Ashland Avenue Chicago Movies." The jacket of pink and yellow is as inviting as its subject matter, short scenarios suitable for children to enact, based largely on nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Particularly valuable is the tabulated form in which the scenarios are presented, which reduces, the problems of production to a minimum. There is also a valuable foreword of practical advice on how to make movies from these outlines. The book is illustrated with silhouettes, in keeping with the subject matter. Its sale price is $1.50 at photographic dealers. Universal Gallery ' I *HE list of users of the Universal ■*• Camera contains the names of many distinguished cinematographers and leaders in many walks of life, and these cameras have been employed on many important expeditions, according to data recently received from the Universal Camera Company of Chicago. Among these users are: Martin Johnson, Burton Holmes, the Ford Motor Company, the U. S. Signal Corps (for world war battle front pictures), the Chicago Surface Lines, Packard Motor Car Co., Professor W. R. Harkins of the University of Chicago (winner of the Willard Gibbs gold medal for 1928), the University of Chicago Palestine Expedition, Captain Barnett Harris, famous explorer and inventor of the "mercy bullet," and many others. The "Cruise of the Speejacks" was also filmed on a Universal, and a recent achievement of this camera was the filming of the American Legion Convention in Paris. Expansion 'T'HE rapid growth of home movie ■* business in New York City is evidenced by the announcement just received of the opening of a branch store of Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., at 235 West 23rd Street. Our congratulations are extended to Mr. Thomas Roberts, Jr., president of these New York stores, with cordial wishes for continued success. Volume Saving T OWER production costs due to •*— ' volume have made it possible to reduce the price of the Goerz 15mm. Hypar lens from $75.00 to $64.50, according to announcement from the C. P. Goerz Company, whose policy, it is stated, is to pass on all such savings to the consumer. The speed of this lens, originally, / 3, has also been increased to / 2.7. The feature of this lens is that it increases the angle of view from 24 degrees, given by the regular one-inch lens, to 38 degrees. It is interchangeable with other lenses for Filmo and Victor cameras. Ah . . . ! Mr. J. Potter Pancake is in a dilemma. For now he must buy the "watch thin" Filmo 75 . . . for Mrs. Pancake. Sophisticated and keen buyers will obtain their "75" from Bass where motion picture apparatus has been sold for over eighteen years. Interesting sixty-page catalog is yours for the asking. May we send you a copy? Bass Camera Company 179 West Madison Street Chicago, Illinois "Yes We Swap Cameras" COMPLETE EQUIPMENT FOR AMATEUR MOVIE MAKERS Artistic Titles Suggested and Made A. S. ALOE COMPANY 707 Olive St. St. Louis, Mo. St. Louis Agents for Kodascope and Home Film Libraries NIGHT MOVIES Flare Showing Detachable Handle Light a Meteor Flare (Powerful Firework Torch) and take a movie of the party — no equipment necessary. The same flare the professionals use. Five sizes, '/£, 1, 2, 3 and 4 minutes of light. Also electrically fired flares for special work. John G. Marshall 1752 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 414