The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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THE DEMANDS OF THE PHOTOPLAY difficulties have been overcome. Any desired color effect can be obtained by this metbod and the beauty of the best specimens is unsur- passed. But the difficulty is so great that it can hardly become a popular method. The direct photographing of the colors themselves will be much simpler as soon as the method is completely perfected. It can hardly be said that this ideal has been reached today. The successive photographing through three red, green, and violet screens and the later pro- jection of the pictures through screens of these colors seemed scientifically the best ap- proach. Yet it needed a multiplication of pictures per second which offered extreme difficulty, besides an extraordinary increase of expense. The practical advance seems more secure along the line of the so- called "kinemacolor." Its effects are se- cured by the use of two screens only, not quite satisfactory, as true blue impres- sions have to suffer and the reddish and greenish ones are emphasized. Moreover the eye is sometimes disturbed by big flashes of red or green light. Yet the beginnings are so excellent that the perfect solution of the technical problem may be expected in the 207