The Moving picture world (November 1926-December 1926)

better Projection ^his Department Was founded in, 1910 bi{ its present 6ditor'^ 'New Paramount Installation Is Best in World THE new Paramount Theatre, in the very heart of the Great White Way, New York City, may be justly described as a palace of entertainment. In fact, I believe no other term quite fits the magnificence of this latest Temple of the Photoplay. This department tenders it.s sincere congratulations to Mr. Adolph Zukor, to Mr. Lasky and to Mr. Sam Katz, to Paramount and to the Publix Theatres Corporation, which will operate the theatre. In all this splendid theatre there is but one possible criticism, and that is the fault of the architects who placed the projection room where it is, instead of where it should be and might be without any sacrifice in symmetry or beauty, had the architects known how to do it. I was sorry to see that, because it really is very unpleasant to have to say there is anything at all wrong with so splendid a creation. A Descriptive Tour I shall now take you for a descriptive visit to the projection suite — for suite it is. Entering one of the passenger elevators at the ground floor we are whisked to a special projection room landing, cross a wide hallway and enter the projection room hallway. Proceeding perhaps five feet we open a heavy metal faced, yale-lock door and pass through. The heavy door closes silently behind us and we are in a hallway something like five or six feet wide by, maybe 25 feet long, well finished and well lighted. Some few feet along the left wait is a door opening into a large workshop, which will be fitted up with Bluehook School Question No. 547 — In what practical way may you tell whether or not your rheostat coils are overloaded ? Question No. 548 — What two important points are there to remember in considering insulation of rheostat coils or grids? everything needed to do the necessary repair work on the projection equipment. Just beyond this is another door (all doors are the same heavy, metal-covered handsome doors which are found in other parts of the theatre, equipped with self-closing devices and cushioned air valves) opening into the rheostat room. This room is some nine feet square, is exceedingly well ventilated and contains eleven multiple coil rheostats having a maximum total capacity of more than 1,400 amperes, though of course no such an enormous amount of current will ever be used at one time. So well ventilated is the room, which connects directly to the main suction theatre-ventilation pipes, that though I was there when normal projection was in progress, with the door tightly closed, while it was, of course, warm it was not at all uncomfortable. At the end of the hallway we open a door, entering another hall, perhaps five feet square. Directly in front is a door leading into a private office for the Chief Projectionist. This, I am advised, will be equipped with a neat desk, a typewriter, files, cabinets, etc., so that the records of the projection room may be made and retained in good order. At our left in the small hall is another door, leading directly into the main projec(Continued on page 381) Fifth Edition of Handbook Is In Two Volumes WEI-i., nun, I liave a real announcement to make, and that is concerning tlie coming Fifth Edition of the Handbook, commonly known as the Blucbook of Projection. I have been working hard on it for a long wliilc, and now I'm going to tell you exactly what it is, because I want you all to know exactly what you are buying, with the remark that in all the tens of thousands of my books that have been sold in the various editions there has yet to be a single buyer who has expressed dissatisfaction with his purchase. A good record, what? To begin with, the new work will be i)oun(l in limp leather, in two volumes, the first containing all that final mass of fundamental matter which we never expect to be able to nnprove upon in any way. The second volume will contain all the equipment description and instruction, which changes more or less continually. We have done this in order that you who buy both volumes now will not again have to buy any but the last one to keep right up to date. Maybe that is not very "good business" for me, but it will help you to keep up to date at less cost, and that (believe it or not, as you will) means a lot to me — more than a few extra dollars obtained by selling you the same stuff over and over again. And now as to the books: The Fifth Edition is the matter contained in the fourth brought up to date, with the addition of such new matter as is necessary to cover the later developments in projection and pro(Continued on next page) The firine squad and their battery. The Paramount Theatre proiector staff Cleft to rieht) consists of O. De Freties, H. Mourier, W. Kellv, Supervisor H. Ruben, Jesse Hopkins, J. Hardinp and H. Bergoffen. They're sharpshooters all when it comes to focusing.