Agfa motion picture topics (Apr 1937-June 1940)

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Behind the scenes in the Agfa-Ansco factory. Top — testing paper stock : cen ter — inspecting positive film ; bottom — assembling AgfaAnsco cameras. smaller lens-openings to obtain greater depth of field. Ibis advance was formally recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences a year ago. in March, 1938. when that organization s Board of Judges gave to the Agfa-Ansco Corporation its jealously guarded “Class 1” Award -the coveted golden statuette — f o r the development of these two films. Since the inauguration of the Academy Technical Awards in 1930. the Class 1 Award has been bestowed but three times previously — and only once for a development in the photographic film field. The importance of the achievement may be appreciated by the citation given by this conservative Board of Judges, which stated in part that ' The Agfa Ansco Corporation, in making available to the motion picture industry these two new panchromatic films . . . has provided a tool to obtain . . . high quality photographic results heretofore impossible . . . Thus the Agfa-Ansco Corporation has provided the motion picture industry with a product which increases the photographic quality of production and tends to lower lighting costs.” The extent to which Agfa pioneered today’s "last films’" is perhaps best attested by the fact that it was not until almost a year later that the first competitive high-speed film product appeared. This brings up to date the record of Agfa-Ansco’s achievements in the motion picture field. What achievements the future may hold can hardly be foretold. But the energetic spirit which gave birth to these present accomplishments cannot and does not 1 1