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ADVANTAGES IN THE USE OF THE NEW STANDARD,
NARROW WIDTH, SLOW-BURNING FILM FOR
PORTABLE PROJECTORS
By W. B. Cook
At the last meeting in April at Rochester, your Society adopted a new size of narrow width, slow-burning film as the standard for all portable projectors. As the firm with which the writer is connected has had nearly five years of successful experience with a similar product, the Chairman of your Papers Committee has requested me to prepare and submit to you some actual facts of the advantages pertaining thereto.
Safety First
We owe a profound debt of gratitude, which will be better appreciated in later years, for the high and noble motives which actuated the sponsors of the new standard and also those members of your Society who co-operated so earnestly in the adoption of a standard which is designed to remove the portable projector industry from a severe and menacing cloud of public mistrust and legislative restriction.
The clearly recognized hazards of the use and even the storage of celluloid film have been not only pointed out by the Underwriters' Laboratories, but have been by them so insistently urged that not only the States, but practically all important municipalities have been compelled to surround the use and storage of celluloid films, within their jurisdiction, with such wise and protective restrictions as would tend to reduce to a minimum the hazards to which the members of the Commonwealth are constantly subjected in attending public or private cinematograph exhibitions.
In the last few years the growth and expanding fields of usefulness of the motion picture have surpassed the wildest imagination of its earlier advocates.
It has long been obvious that a medium of such wonderful educational value would inevitably be recognized as an essential for public instruction as well as entertainment. Progressive schools, churches and institutions have been quick to realize that in the motion picture lies one of the best aids to their usefulness.
It very soon became evident that the principal drawbacks to the general adoption of the motion picture in school, church and institutional work were the expense of the standard theatrical projectors, the specialized skill and knowledge required in their operation, and the deplorable lack of film subjects suitable for institutional use.
The first and second objections were sought to be overcome by the manufacture of cheaper and simpler forms of portable projectors, which could be easily carried from one room to another instead of being limited to a single auditorium, and whose simplicity of construction and operation would enable them to be operated by persons of very moderate mechanical skill.
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