High Contrast Photography For Instruction is a 1956 instructional film for educators, teaching them how to make various copies using high contrast photography. The film was produced by the Indiana University Audio-Visual Center and features instructors from the university’s Education Department. The film shows the basic steps needed to create transparencies, reverse copies, slides, and prints. The film begins with directions for making overhead projector transparencies (00:58), developing the transparency using processing chemicals (developer, stop, and fix). Next, viewers are taught how to make a transparency copy from a book (02:20), using a camera—in this case, a Crown Graphic camera (03:36)—and a pair of lights, film, and a film holder. It also shows the viewer how to develop the film in a dark room by adding the film to developer, then to a stop bath, and finally to the fixing bath. The film demonstrates how to make reserves copies by placing transparencies on high-contrast film (05:58), making 2×2 slides with a camera and an upright stand (07:03), and how to add color to text or images, which can then be used with an enlarger to make a print on photographic paper (08:08). Other materials that can be used with high-contrast photography include transparent adhesives (08:55), flannel boards (09:25), and menu boards. The film also shows how to make an effective graph using high-contrast film (11:20), as high-contrast film is “useful in all subject areas” and allows teachers to make materials “quickly and economically.”
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