Cinematographic annual : 1930 (1930)

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186 CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANNUAL historic value, are still in good condition, so that either full size or standard sized reduction prints can still be made from them. "Spoor and Bergren have worked for more than ten years upon a 63 mm. film called Natural Vision pictures. "Widescope first sponsored a double frame picture on standard film with the film travel horizontal instead of vertical; after that an Italian patent was acquired in which a wide film of about 2)4 inches width is held in cylindrical form about the axis of rotation of a revolving lens so that the succeeding frames are photographed on the same principle as in a panoramic still camera. Unfortunately this method of taking pictures introduces the same curvelinear distortion often noticed in circuit and other panoramic still photographs." At present extensive work is being done in the Fox Case Grandeur in 70 millimeters; Spoor-Bergren in 63 millimeters; still another is 56 millimeters, and Ralph Fear of the Fearless Camera Company has brought out a new camera for photographing on 65 millimeters, which one big picture company is now using in a production. Several of the other large studios are said to be turning a very favorable eye towards this width. While there has been much in a general way published regarding these various width films, the producing companies apparently have been somewhat loathe to give much detailed and authentic information. From Paramount, where experiments have been conducted in 56 millimeters, there is practically no information available. RKO has issued much publicity regarding contemplated use of the Spoor-Bergren 63 millimeter film, but recent rumor has it that this concern is planning to take up the 65 mm. size. However, there is a little more information available regarding the 70 millimeter film of the Fox Grandeur. This company has already presented this width to the public, and as a result of this and the advantages shown in the use of a film wider than the present standard of 35 millimeters, it is pretty generally agreed that a wider film than the 35 millimeter will be evolved out of the chaos. In the case of Grandeur, the Fox film, the width of the film itself is 70 millimeters; while the frame is 22 J/^ millimeters x 48 millimeters; leaving a sound track 7 millimeters wide in the customary position at the left of the picture. The only difference between the normal film stock and that of the Grandeur is that the Grandeur is cut in wider strips and the perforations are of a slightly different pitch. Eastman is the only firm at present making the 70 millimeters width film, and the only perforators for this width film, at this writing, are found in the Eastman plant at Rochester. The cameras used are made by the Mitchell Camera Company and are available on the open market. They are simply the standard Mitchell Camera enlarged laterally to accommodate the wider film. Wherever possible the parts are interchangeable with