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AMERICAN CINEM ATOGR APHER
January, 1924
Eastman Provides For Home Cinema
Practical inventions bring films to the family fireside
Circulating library of many subjects is being planned
Left: The CineKodak, new motion picture camera for amateur and special use.
Top: Illustrating operation of Cine Kodak.
Right: The Kodascope, or home projector.
Just as the kodak, 35 years ago, made photography possible for the amateur, the Cine-Kodak, Cine Kodak Film and Kodascope, announced this this month by the Eastman Kodak company, bring motion pictures within reach of the novice. It is a triple triumph: camera, film and projector — each contributes to the attainment of good motion pictures easily produced at low cost.
The task of developing a camera, a projector and a film which in amateur hands, would satisfy the highest photographic standards yet be easy to use and inexpensive to enjoy called for something basically new — not a mere miniature professional apparatus. A relatively low-priced outfit was considered less essential than was low operatiug cost. Speed Is Standard
The most important economy in operating expense, the first requisite for general enjoyment, is effected by a smaller, new kind of film. Cine-Kodak film is 5/8 of an inch wide instead of 1 3/8 inches, professional width; each image is about 1/(5 standard size in area. A 100-foot roll of Cine-Kodak film lasts as long in the camera or on the screen as 25(1 feet of the standard, although both are exposed and projected at the regular speed of 16 images per second.
Special Emulsion Compound
To make a narrow film practicable, however, it was first necessary to compound a special emulsion. free from the objectionable graininess heretofore found when tiny images were projected to large size. This is accomplished with splendid succcess
in Cine-Kodak film.
Expense Is Minimized
But Cine-Kodak film is a new departure in kind as well as in size, with the result that expensive steps between the fun of taking the picture and the fan of seeing it on the screen are cut out. Instead of developing the film into a negative, then printing a positive from it, the procedure is markedly abridged. Cine-Kodak film is developed, then reversed, so that the very reel that went through the camera goes through the Kodascope, too. The price of the film includes the Eastman Kodak company laboratory charge for converting it, ready for the evening's entertainment. Copy prints, as good as the original, can be made when desired.
The consequence of using this narrow, two purpose film is that the cost of the finished reel is about one-sixth of what it otherwise would be. That is really the key achievement in making motion picture photography an amateur pastime.
The Cine-Kodak camera is such a thorough, practical instrument that it wins instant admiration among critical professional operators. And amateurs who know nothing of photography use it with success from the first.
Simplicity Striven For
In addition to essential features that insure excellent photographic quality, the Cine-Kodak embodies certain refinements intended to safeguard the forgetful operator against disappointment. (Continued on Page 22)