Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1915)

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310 T I OX PICTURE MAGAZIXE 181 JUST PUBLISHED! Another valuable work added to our Series "MOTION PICTURE WORK" By DAVID S. HULFISH 618 Pages, Including Index. Price, $3.00 Mailed prepaid, on receipt of price, to any address in the U. S. THIS BOOK is invaluable for reference and instruction to the thousands of workers in the motion picture field. Covers fully the three Lig branches of the motion picture business : the making of the pictures, the operation of all standard types of projecting machines, and the operation of the moving picture theater. The drawings, diagrams, and photographs used have been prepared especially for this work and their instructive value is as great as the text itself. PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS The Optical Lantern: Elements — Lamp — Lamp-House — Condensers" — ■ Adjustments — Emergency Projection — Slide Carrier — Dissolving Lanterns— Shutters — Slide Alignment — Motion-Head Lanterns — Lenses — Lens Tabl rs — Calculations — Focusing — Remedy for Errors — Lantern Slides. Motion Head: Portrayal of Motion — Optical System — Types of Shutters — Fiim Gate — Film Shift Mechanisms — Continuous Projection — Threading-up Motion Head — Feed — Rewind — Films — Care — Shipment — Operator's Duties. Specific ProjectingMachines: Edison Kinetoscon° — Motiogranh — Power's Cameragraph — Pathe's Professional Model — Standard — American — Selig Polyscope — Edengraph — Lubin Projector. Talking Pictures: Problems — Synchronism of Phonograph and Picture Machine — Unitary or Dependent Machines — Synchronous Motors — Greenbaum Device — Cinephone ■ — Limitations. Color Pictures: Mechanical — ^olor-Phr>tography — Urban-Smith Kinemacolor Process — Operation — Friese-Green ProFilm Manufacturers. Fixed-Camera Photography: Theory — Lenses — Shutter — Darkroom — Camera Operation— Image Production — Principal Object — Background — Recording Image — Dry Plates — Exposure — Corrections — Development — Printing — Enlargements — Lantern Slides — Panoramas — Telephotography — Colored Photographs. Pictography: Product Desired — Classes — Historical — Methods of Production — Author — Plot — Scenario — Tricks — Producer — Studios — Actors — Production — Selling Films— Factory Methods — Manufacture of Films — Camera Management — Development — Printing — Coloring — Buying Equipment — Methods — Trick Pictures. Operating MotionPicture Theaters: Value of Good Managen-.pnt — Competition — Starting a Theater — Location — Financing — Building — Specimen Expense Sheet — Interior Details — Country Theater — Air-dome — Managerial Suggestions — Accounts — Dull Season — Side Lines. THE M. P. PUBLISHING COMPANY 175 DUFFIELD STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE.