Cinematographic annual : 1930 (1930)

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NON-THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES 453 the butterfly are now so ordinary that they can be brought very cheaply for your little home movie projector. Recently we made a Motion Picture of a major medical operation. The film, which illustrates a special technique, is now being shown to medical students. Unlike the theatrical film, we could not rehearse the scenes and had to take the action exactly as it occurred. In taking a microscopic film, for instance, the cameraman who acted as his own director, cannot tell Miss Microbe to smile a little broader, or turn her face to the light. If the film does not turn out he must make another and keep on shooting until he gets the desired results. Readers of the sports sections of the daily newspapers are no doubt familiar with the fact that the athletic coaches of the larger colleges have their own Motion Picture equipment, including slowmotion cameras, with which they shoot movies of every important game during the season to be shown to the teams later for slowmotion analysis. One of the buildings at the University of Nebraska is a regular Motion Picture studio. As early as 1900, Professor Carvallo of France succeeded in producing Motion Pictures showing the process of digestion in the stomach of a frog. This was followed by ultra-microscopic films made by Pathe, with the magnifications over 50,000 times natural size. Motion Pictures have been made showing bullets leaving a gun and a recent experiment by the Bureau of Mines recorded a stick of dynamite as it exploded. Motion Pictures can photograph everything the eyes can see and many things the eyes cannot see. Thanks to the Non-Theatrical field, Motion Pictures are enabling us to picture for you the things we've always read about, but have never seen. Motion Pictures can be applied to overcome space as well as time. It's purely a mechanical function of the camera and the cameraman to speed up or slow down and show flower buds opening into full-grown flowers. The film shows it in 15 minutes while the natural action takes 15 days. The Industrial and Educational fields have been scarcely scratched, and ahead lie developments and accomplishments which today may seem unbelievable, providing every Industrial or Educational pictur? firm will be as diligent and progressive as have been the amusement film concerns. Ten years from today, I can visualize talking pictures carrying the sales campaigns of the big business houses into millions of homes where, instead of reading advertisements in magazines, housewives will simply slip a film into the home projector and listen to the explanation as she sees the picture of a new labor-saving device on the home screen. The possibilities in this field are almost beyond realization.