The Moving picture world (January 1920-February 1920)

890 THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD February 7, 1920 Depa ion By F. H. RICHARDSON Projectionist Interested in Chickens LEO SMELTZER, old-timer in the projection game, still shoots pictures at the screen of the Kearney Theatre, San Francisco, but between shows he runs "Smeltzer's Oak Acres Rabbit and Poultry Farm" at Palo Alto, thirty miles south from San Francisco, -which distance he negotiates daily in a Hudson Six Sedan in (whisper) fortyfive minutes — quite well within the speed limit, as you may observe. He expects to have five hundred bunnies by next summer and no one knows bow many of the feather tribe. Go to it. Old Boy. Success be with you ! Pop Woods, by the way, has a young farm out that way too. Incidentally Woods used to let us hear from him <iuite occasionally, but of late years he makes a noise like a real boistrous oyster only not so loud. One of the Best Bosses. Concerning the Kearney brother Smeltzer says : I have one of the best bosses alive. He wants results and does not throw fits over A little expense; also he does not rush the pictures. He does a good business. I have two Powers Six B, with the "B" part removed, meaning the lamphouses and all the supporting frame for same. In lieu thereof we have Preddy Masda lamp outfits, same being fastened to the machine tool table, with a distance of six Inches from corrugated condenser to aperture— plenty of room once you get used to it. Use 900-watt lamps, 30 v, 30 a, to capacity, on an eighty-foot throw, with a sixteen-foot picture — flve-lnch Oundlach objeotives. Getting Swell Picture. Have my own make of non-halatlon screen, two-wing shutters from one wing of perforated metal as per attached sample, and take It from me I'm getting one swell picture. Lamps last anywhere from twenty to 260 hours, but average about eighty, which fails of the 100-hour guarantee. Mine is the largest picture and greatest distance of projection of any Mazda proposition in this district. Most of the Mazda men have not to exceed a twelve-foot picture at less than sixty feet. Very interesting indeed but we would like friend Smeltzer's candid opinion as to whether or not he does not lose heavily in the finer picture detail through lack of brilliancy of illuminant. Beyond this we would not care to comment just now. Eenmare, Ohio Kenmare, Ohio, should write his street address so that it can be read. He does not need the address of a dealer selling a complete set of projectionists' tools. On page 238 of the handbook he will find a list of necessary tools, all of which Important Notice OWING to the mass of aatter awalttnff publleatloB. it is possible to reply throarb tk* department In less thaa tvo or three weeks. In order to giru prompt service, those ■endlsK four eents, stamps (less thaa actual eest), will receive carbon copy of the department reply, by mall, without delay. Special replies by mall ob matters which cannot be replied to in the department, one dollar. Both the first and seooBd sets of questions are now ready and printed In neat booklet form, the seeond half being seventy-slz 1b number. Either booklet may be had by remitting 26 cents, money or stamps, to the editor, or both for 4* cents. Cannot use Canadian stamps. Brery live, pro^esslve operator should ft a copy of these questions. Tov may be surprised at the namber you cannot answer wlthoat a lot of . study. Are You Gettliix Hazlasaas Ber— ■ ninmlaatlon for Wattare Usedf The 11x17 (two on one) LXNU CHARTS printed on heary paper are suitable for frarainf. Both A. C. and I>. C. amperare If to (0 is covered with Plano-convex or meniscus bi-convex; correct projection lens diameter to avoid waste, also correct distance of revolvinr shatter from aperture. Tour projection room is net complete without the LENS CHARTS. Bend 60 cents in stamps todayl I t Moving Picture World. 116 Fifth avenue, N. T. City; BehiUer Bldr.. CThicago, 111.: Wright A Callender Bldg., Los Angeles, CaL may be purchased in the stores of his own city. Handbook Woke Him Up W. Dales, Orange, Mass., orders lens charts and writes : If the charts compare in value with the handbook they must be well worth double their price. I never did realize how very little I knew about projection until I received the handbook. One thing It did for me was to increase my screen brilliancy at least 25 per cent., without any increase in wattage consumed. In following the handbook I painted the projection room black inside and am now able to~Becure a sharper focus of the picture? Ton Are Right. You are right. No man can judge focus on a screen a hundred feet away with a glare of light on a light wall surrounding the observation port. There is only one theatre here, but we nevertheless do all we can to give value received in return for our patron's money. My employer never hesitates when any thing is needed. He Just says: "Get it." They pay me more than the union scale and I do my best to deserve just that sort of treatment. I did not ask for the abovethe-scale part, so I consider the handbook the best four-dollar investment I ever made. (We take it from that that your employer Increased your pay because of your increased ability to deliver high class service. — Ed.) Can Always Improve. I believe if a man is not too old or too wise to learn he can always improve his screen results. Now please don't take this matter as an advertisement, but I want to thank you tor what the handbook has done for me. I know it can do the same for others If they will come off their high shelf and Invest four bucks. Just sent my Power's Six B away for repairs after two years' faithful service, with an almost blank repair bill during that time. The Spirit of Progrewt. Don't know what you mean by "Don't take this letter for an advertisement." Evidently you intended that it should be printed. Your determination to give the best there is in you is the spirit which makes for progress. Men who are dissatisfied with their job, but who expend all surplus energy in cursing the boss because he does not increase their pay, instead of usmg at least a part of it to fit themselves to be worth more pay, find advancement to rest at the summit of a wall which they cannot scale, except so far as the union supplies a ladder to mount part way up. We grant the fact that there are employers so unintelligent that they will not reward ability by advancing pay. That is a deplorable fact, but another fact overtops it, viz; that the man who wastes his time deploring and cursing that fact, instead of in studying and working to excel, simply renders it impossible to ever take advantage of the job which will advance him on merit. And there are many of them too— and they are increasing in number. Yours is the right system, brother Hales. More power to you. Embryo Projectionist V. J. Votolato, Thornton, Long Island, orders handbook and lens charts and writes, as follows; Dear Mr. Richardson: Pardon the form of address, but I feel I really know you having followed your friendly advice and your various articles so long. For the past five months I've had a handbook from the public library, and as they only allow a book to be kept a month, I have made monthly pilgrimages to have it "renewed " Became tired of that finally and here is the price Have read the handbook through about six times, but always feel that in reading it again I may learn something more. We run a twice-a-week show here and