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The Journal of the Association of CineTechnicians
November, 1935
Cinema Log {continued from pai^e 66.)
English Technicians teach America.
Our Cameramen who went out to America were firstclass workers and founded in New York, and later Hollywood, American photography as we know it to-day. Talking of the old Biograph Company, a subsidiary Company founded by them, is dealt with to-day by every sound technician. I refer to the Ever-Ready Battery Co. Many of the old Bio Boys are still working to-day, and are right up to the minute in their ideas. I refer to Emile Lauste of Kodak's ; Jack Wiggins, Works Chief of Film Laboratories ; A. M. MacDowell, of Agfa, and many others.
There was a photograph of some Pioneers in a Sunday paper — men who made cinema history thirty-two years ago. They were Arthur Cunningham, President of the Cinema Veterans ; Cecil Hepworth, who was his own cameraman and the first to introduce a motor drive for a cinema camera, and to build and use a "Dolly" ; R. W. Paul, who both produced films and built the first projector, and W. C. Jeapes, who synchronised sight and sound in 1908, and was the world inventor of the first Automatic Developing Plant.
Of course, there is Bill Barker, the first man to use thousand-foot magazines, and Williamson, who invented the Camera C^un to teach our airmen fighting, which is used by military authorities all over the world. Kodak's quality of negative stock is based and maintained by English brains. I speak of Wratten and Dr. Kenneth Mees. The famous "Vario" Lens, that changes focal length from two inches to six and three-quarter inches, gives Zooming close-ups without tracking, and is the optical marvel of the age, was built bv an English technician,
and the objectives ground in the Leicester works of Messrs. Taylor, Taylor & Hobson.
I could go on for ever
Yes, we have had the brains. We still have them. Our Technicians need bow to none. It is up to every English Technician to demand his chance and when he gets it, see that by his skill and artistry, he consolidates that opportunity.
Kenneth Gordon.
A.C.T.'s Progress
Since publication of the previous number of the Journal ; —
(1) Over 150 new members have joined the Association.
(2) New sections have been formed for Laboratory and
Newsreel Technicians.
(3) A.C.T. has had to double its office accommodation
and increased its staff by the engagement of an assistant.
Rotary Printer [continued from page fc>9).
A start mark, or punch hole, is made in the leader of the negative. When this hole is level with a line on the illuminated panel, a hole is punched in the paper ; this is repeated on the back leader. These two holes are for starting and stopping the printer.
As the negative is wound over, the operator watches for a change in density ; each time the density changes, a knob is turned to the desired light value and the paper perforated.
Of course only one grading machine is required for anv number of printers. This Printer is a \'inten product.
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