American cinematographer (Jan-Dec 1924)

Eighteen AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER July, 1924 ^Five Hundred Rough Rides through projection machines Tell a Story . . . ^ That's reel proof .of the wise investment in €J Durable release prints . . . having greater Screen Brilliancy at the beginning and end. The Standard Way in Hollywood Aikmdcmc/ \FjJnp JsaboFaloxiGS Phone Hollywood ¥366. Sewcrd 'and ' fiomamo Strvels Hollywood Cali/orma Sampson, who was coming ashore at Siboney for a conference with General Shafter, when the guns of the Spanish and American fleets in their famous battle off Santiago caused Sampson to hurry back to the fleet. It is the great disappointment of Mr. Paley's life that he was not aboard the Brooklyn or the Texas during this fight. After Toral's surrender, Mr. Paley was stricken with yellow fever, but with the help of General Shafter he managed to get all his film safely away to the Edison Company before he surrendered to the hospital ship at Guantanamo. He was taken to New York and was desperately ill for weeks, but recovered in time to film the final scenes of the war in Washington. While still weak with his illness, Daddy Paley was called by Edison to film the land and naval reviews in celebration of the victory and triumphant return of Admiral Dewey and, while there were other cameras on the job, he secured the finest record of the fleet passing Grant's tomb, and got a close-up of the Admiral, who bowed right into the eye of the camera. Daddy Paley's negatives are, therefore, the only motion picture records of the Spanish-American war in existence. They are owned by the Edison Company, and are still catalogued among the educational releases of the company. PROGRESS IN SENDING MOTION PICTURES BY RADIO (Continued from page 9) Radio Movies To get movies by radio the demonstration consists in projecting a picture, with a motion picture projector, onto a ground glass screen located in the focus of the radio photo transmitter. The necessary number of lines per second for satisfactory radio vision and radio movies can doubtless be attained. The required modulation of the light is believed feasible with the special lamp Professor D. McFarlan Moore, of the Harrison Lamp Works, is developing for us. Modulation from light to dark of the order of 160,000 per second is required for 100-lines per inch picture, and this is believed possible; and that the light can be made of sufficient intensity for home movies by radio. Refinement will give us quality just as it has in radio photography, and I think it is only a few months off. Synchronizing Means Synchronism for Radio Vision and Radio Movies is extremely simple, as simple as framing in ordinary motion picture projection. Synchronism for Radio Photos is a little more complex, but is automatic, and has been worked out in such fash