Motion Picture News (Oct-Dec 1930)

38 Motion Picture News October 11 , 1930 POSITION AND DIMENSION OF SCANNING LINE I ! i l SCANNING LINE 1 "" I | SOUNP | ' TRM1K | AR£A I Irai ci_. or sounp TCfcCK AREA AHP OF SCANNING UNt H i /^t .GUiPiNGEDGE ' 'of SOUND GAIe' Relief of Wide Picture Problem Through Screen? Delving deeply into its technical phases for the purpose of discovering some means of mounting temporary obstacles set up by wide film, leading technicians and engineers of the industry will wage a hot discussion on methods of securing a large screen picture at the forthcoming fall confab of the Society of M. P. Engineers. The semi-annual convention will be launched at the Hotel Pennsylvania, Xew York, on Oct. 20 with a spirited contest at the polls when two strong factions are expected to clash for control of the organization in 1931. Wide screens which magnify ordinary 35 mm. film have failed to click to date, chiefly because of technical obstacles and an unnatural touch given to characters which appear out of proportion when flashed on the wide screen. The open floor debate planned by the engineers, it is understood, may furnish material for the correction of these ills. If this occurs, commercialization will be hurried to care for wide film needs, which at present are said to be in a sad plight because of the enormous sums necessary to change over from 35 mm. to a wider measure. A wide screen, such as Magnascope, requires only 35 mm. film, amplifying objects on a large screen. Color on the List Color will come in for its share of discussion when G. E. Matthews, of Eastman's research lab, starts an open forum on principles and processes of photography in natural colors. Matthews will be followed by Palmer Miller, of Brewster Color, who will delve into a three-color subtractive. Practically every important phase of sound is listed for debate, with leaders giving plenty of time to the international aspect. The complete convention program for the entire four-day period, follows: Monday, Oct. 20th 8:30 to 18:0* A. M.— Convention Registration. 10:00 A.M. -Convention Called to Order (Roof Garden, Pennsylvania Hotel). Address of Welcome by Major Edward J. Bowes, Capitol Theatre, New York. Response by the President. Report of the Convention Committee. Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. Election of Officers. Report oi Progress Committee — G. E. Matthews, Chairman. "Meeting Sound Film Competition Abroad" by C. T. North and N. D. Golden. M. P. Division, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington. "International Relations in the Sound Picture Field" by F. S. Irby, Associate Editor, Electronics, New York. "Some Observations of the M. P. Industry in Russia" by J. YV. Coffman, President, AudioCinema, New York. 1:00 to 2:00 P.M.— Luncheon. 2:00 P.M.— Papers: '"The Progress of Sound Motion Picture Presentation" by Harold B. Franklin, Los Angeles. Report of Standards and Nomenclature Committee — A. C. Hardy, Chairman. Open discussion — "Methods of Securing a Large Screen Picture." Report of Journal Committee — L. A. Jones, Chairman. Report of Projection Committee — L. M. Townsend, Chairman. "Principles and Processes of Photography in Natural Colors," by G. E. Matthews, Research Lab-, oratory, Eastman Kodak, Rochester. "Three Color Subtractive Cinematography," by Palmer Miller, Brewster Color Film, Newark. Demonstration Film of a Three Color Lenticular Screen Process, by L. M. LaPorte, Paramount Publix, New York. Committee Reports: Color Committee— W. V. D. Kelley, Chairman, Historical Committee — C L. Gregory, Chairman. Studio Lighting Committee — A. C. Downes, Chairman. SOUND TRACK ON 35M/M SOUND AND PICTURE POSITIVE Theatre Lighting Committee— C. E. Egeler, Chairman. Membership. Papers, and Publicity Committees — H. T. Cowling, J. W. Coffman, W. Wbitmore, Chairmen. 8:00 P.M.— Exhibition of recent films of interest in the Roof Garden, Pennsylvania Hotel. Tuesday, Oct. 21st 8:30 to 9:30 A. M.— Registration. 9:30 A^l.— (Root Garden. Pennsylvania Hotel.) "An Entertainment City," by R. N. Goldsmith, Vice-President. Radio Corp., New York. "Recent Developments in Newsreel Sound Recording Equipment," by P. M. Robillard and E. F. _ Lyford^ RCA Photophone. New York. 'Si mt New Studio Recording Equipment," by W, P. Dutton and S. Read, RCA Victor Co.. Camden. "Improvements in Dynamic Speakers," by I. Bo^ brovsky Serge, Consulting Engineer, Rochester. "Carbon and Condenser Microphones — Their Characteristics in Construction and Use," by W. C. Jones, Bell Telephone Labs., New York. Open discussion: "Advantages and Disadvantages of Placing Sound and Picture on Separate Films." 12:30 to 1:30 P.M.— Luncheon. 1:39 P.M.— Papers (Roof Garden, Pennsylvania Hotel) : "Motion Study with the Motion Picture Camera," by Alan Mogenson, Associate Editor, McGrawHill Publishing Co.. New York. "A New Sound Picture Theatre Reproducing System." by G. Puller. Bell Telephone Labs., New York. "A New Tyre Glow Lamp for Recording Sound _ on Films." by Joseph B. Zetka. New York. 'The Madaler Process of Sound Recording and Reproducing," by H. Von Madaler. Hampton Bays, L, I. Demonstration Film Recorded by the Use of a Reflector in Combination with a Microphone — If. W. Dreycr and M. C. Batsel, RCA Photo phone. Inc., New York. "Film Noise of Non-Electric Origin," by John G. Frayne, Electrical Research Products, Hollywood. "Some Experiences in Adapting Theatres for Sound." by L. M. Townsend, Paramount Publix, New York. "A 16 mm. Portable Sound on Film Projection Equipment." bv C. R. Hanna, P. L. Irwin and E. \V. Revnolds. Westinghouse, East Pittsburgh. 6:30 to 7:30 P.M.— Dinner. Entire evening set aside for visiting Broadway Theatres. Wednesday, Oct. 22nd 9 :30 A.M.— Papers (Roof Garden, Pennsylvania Hotel) : . "Cinematographic Analysis of Mechanical Energy Expenditure in the Sprinter," by C. A. Morrisson, Eastman Teaching Films, Rochester, and W. O. Fenn, University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester. "Additional Characteristics of High Intensity Arcs," by D. B. Joy and A. C. Downes, Research Laboratories, National Carbon, Cleveland. "Double Toning of Motion Picture Film," by J. I. Crabtree and W. Marsh, Research Laboratory, Eastman Kodak, Rochester. "Some Observations on Stereoscopic Projection, by J. B. Taylor, Research Laboratory, General Electric, Schenectady. "Removing the Fire Hazard from the Handling and Storage of Film in Laboratories," by R. C. Hubbard, Consolidated Fi.m Industries, New York. "Some Applications of the Comparison Microscope in the Film Industry," by O. E. Conklin, Redpath Laboratory. DuPont-Pathe Film, Parlin, N. I. "The Rocono Treatment for Film Rejuvenation, by A. P. Rittenbein, New York. "Reducing Solutions for Motion Picture Film," by J. I. Crabtree and L. E. Muehler, Research Laboratory. Eastman Kodak, Rochester. 1.00 to 2:00 P.M.— Luncheon. 2:30 P.M.— Boat Trip Around Manhattan Island. Boat leaves Battery Pier at 2:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M.— Semi-Annual Banquet in the Grill Room of the Pennsylvania Hotel. Dancing afterward. Thursday, Oct. 23rd 9:30A.M. — Papers (Bell Telephone Laboratories): "A Modern Laboratory for the Study of Sound Picture Problems," by T. E. Shea, Bell Telephone Labs., New York. "Peculiar Engineering Problems in the 16 mm. Field," by E. C. Fritts, Eastman Kodak, Rochester. Two-Way Television Demonstration by H. E. Ives, Bell Telephone Labs., New York. "A Damped Diaphragm Sound Reproducer," by Rudolph Miehling, Universal Sound System, Philadelphia. "The World's Most Powerful Microscope," by F. F. Lucas, Bell Telephone Labs., New York. 1:30 to 2:30 P.M.— Luncheon (courtesy of Bell Telephone Labs., Inc.), 2:30 P.M.— Trip through Bell Telephone Laboratories, including Sound Film Laboratory. 7:30 P.M.— Papers (Roof Garden, Pennsylvania Hotel): "Two-Solution Development of Motion Picture Film." by J. I. Crabtree, H. Parker and H. D. Russell, Research Laboratory, Eastman Kodak. Rochester. "Aiding the Theatre Patron Who Is Hard of Hearing." by F. H. Graham, Electrical Research, New York. "The Photoflash Lamp," by Ralph E. Farnham, General Electric, Cleveland. "Higher Illumination for NonProfessional Projector Equipments with Low Voltage Tungsten Filament Lamps," by V. J. Roper, General Electric, Cleveland. "Electrical Instruments for Test Purposes." by A. H. Wolferz. Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., Newark. "A New and Simplified 16 mm. Projector and Camera." by C. E. Phillimore, Peko, Inc., Chicago. NUMBER OF TEETH IN MESH