Business screen magazine (1946)

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Super 8 Spans the Seventies standardization still not set. Wide diversity fits many A V needs Vidicom 8 "Private Eye" or Rheem 4600 weighs 2 lbs. and provide up to 4'/t minutes of sound film. Continuous loop cartridge snaps into unit. The A. B. Dick Model 60 offers up to five minutes of sound film with stop action and earphones. Projector weighs 11 lbs. Bohn-Benton attache case projector weighs 17 lbs. and will rear project up to 20 min. of continuous loop magnetic (125 A) sound film. Falrchlld Seventy-21 holds RCS MODule System oper Jayark projector holds up up to 20 minutes of con ates up to 30 minutes with to 30 minutes of continuous loop magnetic (18 cartridge film and sound tinuous loop magnetic A) film. It has a 9 X 12 in. tape. sound (38 frame retard) rear screen and converts film and projects on popfor front use. The unit up rear screen. Unit weighs weighs 17 lbs. and is IS'/z 20 lbs. and features 9 x 12 X 14 X 7 in. when closed. in screen. Technicolor Model 1300 offers 29 mm utes of projection in continuous loop film. It weighs 29 lbs., has a 7 X 9 'a m. screen and has an 11 mm. cartridge. 20 Confusion, dcbalc, claims and counter-claims continue to surrouml the Super S arena. Oespile the controversy sill! n.iggin^ It M) lenns of standurdiz;i(ion and replication. Super 8 has come a long way since its inception just over six years ago. Since f'airchild introduced the first continuous Smm loop cartridge concept in the early lyftO's, the idea of high-quality, low cost systems have nnishroomed in the educational and industrial areas. And since Kodak's introduction of Super 8 in 1^65. the variety of hardware to hit the market has become staggering. Technicolor, which produced the first fully automatic cartridge (silent) in 1961. was quick to adopt Super 8 and in 1966 became the first company to produce Super 8, optical sound cartridges. 1967 brought one new silent and four new sound cartridge systems (Cameca, MPO and Fairchild with two were the sound systems). In 1969, Jayark and Bohn-ti Benton introduced their systems. I he problem w as that each was different, none of the cartridges were interchangeable and the sound tracks were entirely different, thus requiring a certain projector for a certain film or cartridge. The incompatibility problem persists to this day, although there have been significant efforts at standardization. SMPTE and the American National Standards Institute have accepted the plus IS frame for magnetic sound and 22 frame advance for optical. Two important developments fi>relold the adoption of these standards. One was the 1968 agreement by European manufacturers on the Easy Play cassette system which led directly to the development of the Braun silent Super S cassette and the Bolex silent Super 8 cassette system. Tlie other was the announce ment in late I9(i9 of the KodakFairchild-Eumig projectors which featured a compatible and interchangeable cartridge. As for now and the future of Super 8. particularly in industrial usages, it depends on who you talk to. One person told us he thinks the big surue will come onlv after the battle Left: MPO Videotronic projects up to 15 minutes of continuous loop magnetic sound film. Projector weighs 18 lbs. .0 ad e BUSINESS SCREEN