Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1922)

Record Details:

Title:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Date:
1922
Publisher:
New York : Society of Motion Picture Engineers
Volume:
Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers (1922)
Leaf #:
000168
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Cinematography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Technical Journals
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Preceeded by an unnumbered issue published in 1916 called: Incorporation and by-laws
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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through projection. Our printers should be even more flexible than our cameras. We should be able to do with our printing machine even more than we can do with our camera. It should be so flexible that we can take any part of our positive and make a new negative, that will enable us to do trick work that as yet has not been seen. Not only in trick work would this machine be invaluable, but it would save its cost several times at the end of a production by preventing the calling back of high salaried stars for possibly a few necessary close-ups, fade-in and fade-out ends, that could not be foreseen at the time of making picture, etc. There is nothing of this kind as yet on the market and when the right kind of a machine is finally made it must be done under the direction of a competent photographer who will understand in what manner it is to function. The market is ready for it and the demand will be good, because it will create competition and every company in the manufactury of motion pictures will necessarily have to install such equipment. I would like to see someone endeavor to create improvements along these lines and to this end I will always be most willing to assist in any manner of suggestion that will be of any assistance to him who attempts to create the perfection of such equipment, and I am sure I can offer any facilities of the Famous Players Lasky Studios in Hollywood for experimental purposes. 158