657 This film, which details how film is made, starts out with an amazingly boring chemistry lesson, slowly becomes slightly interesting to the end. First starting off with flimsy opening credits (The American Chemical Society badly needs a new logo) the film credits Shirley Burden, curiously, as doing most of thje pghotography. Most? As the narration starts, it sounds like it's done though an echo chamber and sounds hopelessly snooty. Oh they seem to know their way around a chemistry lab though, as 15 minutes go by discussing film emulsion chemistry. Most of it is very convuluted. Try to follow the 8 step chart to how a film is developed. If you think that's bad, the remaining 10 minutes are worse. It's very puzzling to figure out WHO this film was made for, as it seems to glamorize hollywood and film processes, yet totally bogs it down with scientific mumbo-jumbo. The second part picks up a bit though, with actual demonstrations. Best line "If the film is not ready yet, dunk dunk it goes". The narration in the 2nd part is what increases the film from a 1 star rating to a 2 star. The narrator, still in the echo chamber, is OBVIOUSLY reading from a script.. why? You can heard him turning the pages! As well, he fumbles some words, and yet they just keep going! At one point, the Narrator says "For the purposes of this film, we will not talk about sound". Which says it all. Fascinatingly Cheap. Spuzz 2002-12-17 00:00:00 2002-12-17 00:00:00 2 I would like to clarify that this film was made by chemists, not film makers. It was made as a technical, instructional film. Thus the technical "mumbo jumbo" as the previous reviewer commented. It should also be noted that it was made in 1940, yes, cheaply and with no entertainment frills! I wonder if Mr. Solow's USC "laboratory techniques" students were required to watch it?! He is the 1st narrator to be heard on the film. He later became the lab head and developed many award winning techniques used in film labs. A teaching film! bjsdesign 2008-03-01 06:28:57 2008-03-01 06:15:19 3 2 2.50