Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1929)

125(1 M o t i o n Picture News iwn in the ^^""■■•^^^ Whv take a chance on a machine breaking down in the midst of a pleasant and profitable program? What is more aggravating to the audience and sponsors of a public program than delays and poor performance due to faulty equipment? To insure a successful affair, it is important that every detail of equipment is properly taken care of. An amplifier which fails to function properly always mars the evening regardless of how perfect other equipment may be. Are you risking a good reputation to save money on old. worn out or inferior equipment? The Webster Company and its competent and experienced engineers have spent time, money and effort to improve Webster equipment to the highest possible degree; and in the new types of amplifiers and faders. RP-250 and model "B" Fader Unit, their efforts have been realized. Webster power amplifiers are manufactured in a variety of models to suit almost any requirement. You can depend on Webster for faithful reproduction. You can depend on Webster for quality and workmanship backed by fifteen years of experience in radio and electrical manufacturing. Let Webster engineers help you with your problems. Absolutely no obligation on your part. Write today for complete information. THE WEBSTER CO. 850 Blaokhawk St., Chicago, 111. Exclusive Canadian Distributor Radio Industries of Canada. Ltd.. Winnipeg, Canada Model B variable Fader Unit. Can be switched from sound on disc to sound on film, Equalizers allow matching output of pick-ups for uniform setting on each projector. Net weight 7 lbs. Price, $70.00. RP-250 Amplifier. Complete doublechannel type. Net weight 200 lbs. Price complete, $700. Less control panel, $550. Power Amplifiers Standard VAUDEVILLE for Motion Picture Presentation THE FALLY MARKUS AGENCY Astor Theatre Building N. W. Cor. 45th St. & Broadway Lackawanna 7876 NATIONAL SCREEN Service SOUND*? SUB" THE BULLETIN BOARD (Continued from page 1242) needs. Over, and far beyond that, is the court of last resort — the theatregoing public. The screen itself is the laboratory in which wide film will pass its final test. Very likely it will be a repetition of sound — the first company in the field setting the standards that others will accept, because the public has accepted them. Such outcome, naturally, would mean that the wide film eventually to issue as standard will be either Grandeur, or the Spoor Natural Vision, the former 70 mm wide and 35 mm high, and the latter 63 mm wide and 35 mm high. These two are regarded the first in the field, so far as production and public demonstration, at least, are concerned. New Interest In Color ANOTHER comparatively recent popular development for which the sound pictures are responsible is the use of natural color in photoplays. Work on newcolor processes goes on furiously in laboratories throughout the world. Report has it that Technicolor has solved the problem of adding the third color to films for natural color reproduction. The Technicolor process which came to the fore with a rusn as a result of sound pictures, will be used extensively in productions to be made this year. According to an announcement from the Technicolor Corporation, there will be more than 100 talking pictures made during the current season with Technicolor used throughout, or at least for important sequences. These will include pictures made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., RKO, First National and Paramount, among others. When Will Era of the Full Stage Screen Arrive? (Continued from page 1245) showing of Vitaphone. If this portends a development for wide film as sudden and as rapid as that which followed the introduction of the present type of synchronized sound, then it will be only a short time before the machinery for exhibition — projection equipment and theatre design— will undergo a great and decided change from present standards. The larger theatre organizations already are preparing for the arrival of screens of new and enlarged dimensions. Proscenium openings that are built to accommodate a screen twice as wide as it is high have been specified in commissions to sonic theatre architects for plans to be drawn for proposed new theatres by one of the big companies. That would indicate thai the prospective builders are "playing safe." The Grandeur film is the largest that has been proposed — it is twice as wide as it is high — and thus if the final result is a film of those dimensions, these new houses will be ready with full provision for it as well as for other wide films of different proportions. UNIFORMS FOR HOUSE ATTACHES COSTUMES FOR STAGE PRESENTATIONS BROOKS 1437 B'way New York