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jury to an audience. With a modern fireproof projection room it is practically impossible for fire itself to work injury to any individual of an audience. It is the resultant panic when some one invariably present where an audience assembles, sees smoke or fire and spreads the alarm at the top of his voice, usually accompanying it by a rush to the door. In view of this fact, it would seem advisable either to do away with fuse-links altogether, educating the projectionist that the first act when fire occurs is to drop the shutters, or else adopt a betterplaced, quicker acting fuse. Some idea of such fuse-links are shown in Figs. C and D.
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Fig. D
Showing detail of film link to be placed immediately over projector aperture, where fire will strike it very quickly. A still better plan is to cut a narrow slot in front of upper magazine, at front, near top, passing a link of this film-fuse through same into magazine with a bit of wire thrust through to hold same, so that when fire strikes it fuse will be released instantly. There are so many ways of accomplishing the end that in this paper space will only admit of the idea being conveyed. The best method of application, remembering the main idea is to secure instant severing of the link when fire starts, must be left to the individual to work out.
Equipment: I think it is unnecessary to deal with the equipment of the projection room in this paper, since it could by no stretch of imagination be made the subject of standardization, as an equipment; though its parts should have attention.
Projectionist: There is, however, one subject further which, it seems to me, deserves notice; viz.: the title of the man in charge of the projection room. The term "operator" is nondescript, non-descriptive and not at all in keeping with the business of projection of photoplays. We have telephone operators, telegraph operators, etc., etc., almost without number. Presumably we call the man who projects pictures an "operator" because he operates a motion picture machine. By precisely the same logic, the locomotive engineer is an "operator" because he operates a locomotive, and the organist is an "operator" because he operates an organ.
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