Download Report - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

ROOSEVELT
The following'scenes were photographed in Hotel
Roosevelt lobby. Mazd,a equipment only.
Eastman stock. Long, medium shots and closeups
of hotel lobby. Night lighting. Char-acters in
evening attire. Full figure of dark-haired man in
evening suit and dark-haired girl in light evening
frock and blonde lady in light evening gown.
Dupont stock. Hotel Iobby with same series of
medium shots and close-ups as aboYe.
Long shot of lobby taken with Akeley c-amera,
panninE around so as to show the system of lightings
and the position of the different lights.
This shot ii followed by a series of six Akeley
shots demonstrating the lighting equipment used.
REEL SIX
LIGHT EFFECTS
Subject No. 3. Possibilities of light effects with
Mazda equipment,
Test 81. Mazda. Medium shot and close-up.
Crystal bowl gazer making passes over the bowl,
which brightens and casts strong light on the character.
The light is increasing and diminishing gradually
and has been controlled solely by a resistance.
This light effect has been obtained through the
working of the Mazda light and not by any camera
trick.
Test 5. Mazda. Long shot. Interior livingroom
with arch and staircase in background. Night lighting.
Brackets and ceiling lamp lit.
- Light-haired
man and dark-haired girl, he in dark business suit,
she in black velvet drcss. Sudden change of lig:hts'
Wall brackets and hanging lamp go out. Staircase
beyond archway ,stays
lighted. Flood of moonlight
comlng tnto wlnoow.
Tes[ 20. Mazda. Long shot. Living room. Night
effect. No visible lights in room but strong shaft
of moonlight coming through window, in middle
foreground. Other strong Iight hitting background
from .unknown source.
Test 23. Mazd.a, Medium shot. Full figure of
dark-haired lady wearing evening gown with white
bodice and black skirt. Strong light and shadows
effect. Plain background broken by light and
shadow effect.
Test 26. Mazda. Long shot and close-up. Living
room in darkness, shaft of light coming- through
window. Butler enters, turns on wall brackets.
Young man in street attire enters, sits in armchair
in foreground, turns on reading lamp. Lady enters;
they exit.
Ti:st 32. Mazd.a. Close-up. Dark-haired lady in
dark dress seated by reading lamp. Source of light
strongly emphasized as coming from lamp. Very
sketc[y Ighting with highly pronounced high lights
and shadows.
Test 33. Mazda. Lowest key of lighting used
in long shots. Long shot and close-up. Living room.
Full night lightings, lighted wall brackets and lighted
reading lamp in foreground. General mass of
lightings in background. Foreground semi-silhouetted.
Dark-haired man and blonde girl in evening
clothes.
Test 35. Mazda. Semi-long shots. Library.
Night lightings, lighted candelabra and indication
of-overhead fixture. Room fully lig:hted. Lights
are paftially turned off. Young man and. gjrl in
love-scene,-hearing steps, turn lights partially otr
and hide. Father enters roorn Turns other lights
off, leaving room diinly lighted.
iest 49-. Mazda. Long shot. Interior living
room. Dim night effect lightings. Strong shaft of
Iight from room behind archway. Couple in evening
attire entets. Reading lamp turned on, then
wall brackets are turned on, bringing the room into
full night lighting.
Test 59. Mazda. Medium shot. Living room.
Dim lighting. Strong light in room beyond door.
Couple enters and exits from scene, their shadows
cast-upon wall. The whole scene played in shadow
effects.
Test 68. Mazda. Longshot. Entrance hall.
Very dim general light. Girl enters from door
casting a shaft of light into room' She half closes
door and inspects room with aid of flashlight. Lights
a cigarette, thowing actinic value of the flame of
the match.
Test 69. Mazda. Semi-close-up. Blonde girl in
light evening gorvn supposedly conversing with -a
man who is out of the picture, but whose shadow is
cast on the wall.
Test ?1. Mazda. Long shot' Entrance hall in
darkness. Strong shaft of light coming through
door. Dim moonlight on window in back wall'
Girl in evening dress enters scene, tutns on lights,
bringing room to. full night lighting. Opens dooi
to couple rn evenlng oress.
Test 81. Mazda. Medium shot. One girl in full
figure against wall Iighted by well defined source
of tight iasting a sharp shadow on the wall'
T;t 53. NIazd,a. One 1000-watt light. Closeup
blonde girl with light eyes against stucco wall.
REEL SEVEN
COLOR CHART
This reel contains a series of tests of a color
chart. These tests of a purely technical nature have
been made to ascertain:
1. A comparison between daylight filtered
through-Wratten light-filters and the following
sources of artificial illumination: Whit'e
Flame Arc. Panchromatic Carbon; Cooper-
Hewitt Mercury Tubes, Cooper-Hewitt Mercury
and Neon Tubes and Mazda lights. -
2. Th; flter factor on the three stocks; Eastman,
DuPont and Agfa.
3. The'chromatic distortion obtained by the use
of a Red and a Green filter combine.
4. The influence of machine development on the
above mentioned stocks.
As the inspection of this reel is almost impossible
in a projectiig room no master prin-t 9{ these tests
has been made. Still photographs of tl-r.is chart covering
the whole series-of tests are on display in the
rooris of the American Society of Cinematographers.
REEL EIGHT
DEFECTS
Subject No. 6. Mechanical defects of Mazda at
the prLsent stage of advancement,- the most noticeable'of
which ire rings and streaks caused by lhe
elements in spot equifiment-. T!is,.howeve!, is being
reduced to a minimum, both by improved equipment
and experience in handling. -
Test ?6, Mazd'a. Long shot. Interior entrance
-
hall. Strong sunlight shafts through back wall
*ittdow and "French-window in foreground' Spot-
Iight - streaks on back well.
-t"tt OO. Mazda. Long shot. Living room' Night
lightings. Wall bracket and library- table lamp'
Sfi;;k; patch of light from spot on back wall of
room - " beyond archway.
"za. i""i Mazd'a.' Long shot. Interior living
to*. Fult aayligfrt lighting. Stlgaky patches of
light on back wall from floor sp-otlights'.
Test 32. Mazda. Long shot' Living room'
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