The handbook of kinematography, the history, theory, and practice of motion photography and projection (1911)

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HANDBOOK OF KINE MA TOGRAPH Y. 143 the parts are arranged with special attention to the operator's needs. Thus, the lantern house is splendidly accessible for cleaning purposes, as also the projector movement itself. Of course, the Maltese Cross is of the finest, arranged to be adjustable and balanced to a nicety. Equally the supporting base and stand are at once rigid and reasonably light of construction. Everything, in fact, is as it should be with this particularly perfect projector. We have only to add that the Urban Trading Company is a safe firm to go to for high-class goods of every description in connection with the motion picture business. The Urban cameras (for taking moving pictures) are, for instance, known and appreciated all over the world, and only an unfortunate hitch, which we deeply regret, prevented their getting their due at our hands in the review of picture making machinery in Part I. of this volume. FIG. 108. THE WARWICK PROJECTOR. WARWICK bioscopes are simply designed machines with little complication of parts, and they possess, as may be divined from this last statement, a consequent enviable measure of durability which