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Bell & Howells home movie camera: "No special skill needed- uuurs no mor~ nli~!-aaory '",..Yo( ncalling an c-.xperi· MOVUS , , M.p
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Filmo Camera provides it. What you see you get". T t'nc~ rh11n through homo movit'.S. Noc -a de1A..il. not :a morion .. .. ,. ......... _,.,too . ...
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0"'" your own mo,.·ie camen-rec:ord. <ompletdy and l.au· ... _ .......... .... ,. ..... w •• 1~10
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Cint:-Kodalc.-thc: home mo"'i~ c1mer2 e~&<tly suiu:d co )OUt ........ ~ ... ·------.... "
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n~d$ . .• Cin-:.Kod.lk Film ••. Proc:ening 1hou's C'Onvc:nicot 10 SHOW 16 MM. MOYfiS •• II•
and included Jn the price of the film • •. 1\.od.lJCOpt:-dlc pro-
Up the scale, for the adult projectionist. were the better jc:C10r th-;at )bow) your mo,.·its brllli.antly-E•.stnou.n all, <U'Id aU ,.rkt4, fN"' ,.,,.u , K.-u.,. MN•
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engineered quality projectors operating mostly on the new Your duln'Will show you ch~ r.angt orEanmot.n home mmie ... ............ tit41-;e.
cqujpnumc Qnd project s01mple mo•ic) (or rou , , , (urm.an
substandard gauges that had been specifically designed for Kocbk Cuntp;~.ny. RochC$1ct, N.Y.
home shows. The earliest included hand-cranked models - tOO&l'l NCW (OlOI I*W-Autlll TICI )If Clf '* MlW fOil WOilO'S ''"
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little more sophisticated than the ubiquitous 35mm toy pro- Kud.tt.'humtt' Ml·<vlor pfuwru proitcttd on • un.fooc u-rrcn,
ltJngr-u 11'1 "'"' ·~ltJ. Ahu .11 tht K(Mbk llGittJin~-c:&Jietl •t.l<riC"It
jectors - but later motorised machines soon took the major on r •<lurr 1a.kil'lfi "'' d1e F•tr. ~"·' for,cu rovr f.io(·K~
market share. Cine-Kodak
Eastman·s finer home mo'''C: amcra.s
Of course, there was often a crossover between the two types
of movie enthusiast. What started a<; home movie making
might lead to the urge to include in a program anything
newsreel of family and local happenings when you would
from an early Charlie Chaplin short to an Our Gang com-
find that mention of such a film would more than fill any
edy. Likewise, the home theatre enthusiast might eventu-
empty seats that you might have!"
ally succumb to the lure of filming his or her own epics to
add vruiety to the screening of commercial films, as one Film Sources
early writer proposed in a book on hobbies for the young
If you were the operator, for exrunple, of a 'Lion' toy pro-
enthusiast:
jector (as I was) where would you have found 35mm films
to screen? Well, the field wasn't very wide because theca-
"Once the hobby (home cinema) has taken a hold on you as
pacity of these 35mm machines wasn't much above lOOft
it most certainly will, you can expand and make your pro-
or so! Perhaps, if you knew a friendly projectionisl at your
grams more and more ambitious. Having mastered all the
local cinema (shades of the Italian feature Cinema Paradiso)
tricks of show mans hip, you might try filming your own
you might obtain offcuts from damaged films!
I managed to acquire bits and pieces like old
Child's Home uMovie" Stage From a Shoe Box Empire Newsreels. The alternative was to buy
from toy shops short segments cut out of
Children can make their
own movies wlth this prints of eru·Jy (usually silent) feature films.
stage, which coll$l.sts of. a Early manager of the Carlton Cinema in
shoe box containing a
Lunp and a tissue-paper Melboume. Gordon McClelland, told me
screen. Pictures are how his father purchased for him 35mm se
sketched on the paper or
traced on lt from cata- -quences out of John Wayne's first feature
logues and magazlqes, for Gordon to run on his hand-cranked toy
and are colored lightly to
suit. Then the papet ls projector! My 'Lion' came with a shot1 item
wound on a large spool on a horse race (believed by ScreenSound
and slipped over a do.wel
running through the box Australia, formerly the National Film and
from tcp to bottom near Sound Archive, to be an early Melbourne
one end. To show the
movies, the paper is un- Cup) plus a segment from an old silent west
wound slowly onto an- ern and another from some old unidentifi
able American melodrama.
All nitrate, of course.
When it all began: "Make Believe" cinema in the 1940's
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