https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/7e1d7d3d-eb59-42d1-ac52-89ed66e8e940 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Early 1970s educational film by Carousel Films, Inc. and Workshop 2000+1 sponsored by the Belgium Ministry of Education and Dutch Culture about the creative use of practical cinema effects using simple equipment, creativity, ingenuity, and imagination to simulate reality. This film is by Jean Mil, assisted by Roland Swaenepoel, music by André Leune. 00:24 Toy race cars enact the Grand Prix. 01:17 Two kids pull a homemade racetrack by hand. They pull toy cars by invisible line along an outdoor road. 01:51 Wallpaper is fixed in a loop, painted over as a road surface. Talcum powder is used underneath the wallpaper to make movement easier. Each toy car is held in place by invisible thread lines. When the wallpaper is pulled, the cars appear to race. 03:01 Shooting speeds of 12 and 24 frames per second are demonstrated. 03:20 Set-up and point of view is reviewed. The camera placed in various positions above the mock race track. Long, medium long, medium, medium close up, and close up shots are demonstrated. 05:00 Editing the various shots is demonstrated. 05:13 A toy Spirit of St. Louis airplane appears to fly. 06:33 The toy plane is fastened to the lens of an Agfa Movexoom 4000 Super 8mm Camera with strong, flexible two-prong wire. James, one of the child moviemakers, demonstrates how to securely attach the plane to the camera and the resulting illusion of flight. 07:57 The moviemakers also record the airplane simply by holding the toy in front of the lens. Various ways of using the technique are demonstrated. The effect is further heightened by sound effects and intercutting aerial point of view shots. 10:08 “Stars” are seen against a black background. Child filmmakers Sven and James demonstrate how this is created by placing a large disc on a turntable. The camera is mounted directly above looking down on the disc. As the disc rotates, the kids drop crumpled packing material past the camera lens creating the illusion of meteorites tumbling in space. 11:28 Packing material is broken apart and painted. The effect is again demonstrated. 12:24 Various shooting speeds (normal, slow, high) are illustrated. A Bolex camera and chart explain 12, 24, and 48 frames per seconds. The difference between all the speeds and their impact on the image projected back is explained and demonstrated. Reversing the film through editing or through the projector is also demonstrated. 15:40 Image of the sun behind clouds and a bright star in outer space. Bubbling, lava-like material pulsates. Focused is pulled and the bright star is revealed to be a 75 watt light bulb attached to a socket on a black board and covered glue. A sticker is placed on the bulb to create a sun spot. The glue is “cooked” when the light is turned on and off a few times creating a lava-like structure. The bulb is painted in several layers with red transparent glass paint. More glue is added and a macro lens is used to capture close up views of the light bulb. The resulting effect of a lava surfaced sun is demonstrated. 20:43 The kids are in a field, laying on their backs shooting up at the sun through tall grass. This shot is intercut with a star in space projecting and flashing pulsating light. The effect is revealed: a plastic tub with holes drilled into it is placed over the lens of the camera in studio. A light on the outside is run over the tube. 22:11 Correct exposure is explained. Different F-stops are demonstrated and double exposed to create illusions of depth. Colored gels are placed over the tube to change the color of light. 23:36 the angle of the lens wide, normal, telephoto are demonstrated and how each impacts the tunnel effect. One of the kids sends a ping pong ball down the tub towards the camera lens. The resulting effect is that of an object in space careening toward the viewer. 25:53 END Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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