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directions. This may appear somewhat fanciful, but might not present particular difficulty. The advantage of such an arrangement apart from economy would be that the sound track could be as wide as possible, and being wide need not be so accurately made.
Taking this idea and combining it with the principles of the Moviola, we might imagine a home projector utilizing paper strip which could either be "viewed'* or projected.
It would seem that these various developments which have actually taken place could be combined into a mechanism which even at the present time would give us sound-onfilm results at a much lower cost than at present persists
One of the difficulties of sub-standard sound-on-film is that of sufficient room for the sound track. A further possibility is to arrange for a track to be printed right across the picture, but in such a colour or combination of colours that while not apparent in the screen, could be picked up by a photo-electric cell especially designed or employing special filters. As a matter of fact, experiments carried out in this direction have, we believe, proved encouraging, although at the moment no apparatus is on the market.
Future of Recording. For projection we require apparatus simple in operation, and film subjects as cheap as possible. For recording, on the other hand, portability is the prime need. In Chapter IX it was found that it was not exceedingly difficult to obtain reasonable results. Nevertheless the apparatus although not heavy or cumbersome cannot be described as portable in the sense applicable to 16 and 9-5 mm. cine-cameras. Is it possible that in the not too distant future we shall be able to record sound-on-film by an apparatus more bulky than present-day silent cameras?
There is no reason why this should not be so, and a number of compact sound-on-film recording equipments arc in course of development.
The real cause of the bulkiness of a sound-on-film apparatus is the necessity for using an amplifier. Even the portable equipment such as is used by the British Movietone X although it can be transported, is far too heavy for amateur purposes.
Is an amplifier necessary ? Some sort of amplification is
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