Exhibitors Herald World (Jul-Sep 1929)

September 21, 1929 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 43 Weeks to West Coast; Will Start Production Of Eddie Bowling Film (Special to the Herald-World) HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 17.— George W. Weeks, vice-president of Sono-Art Productions, last week returned to Hollywood for final conferences with O. E. Goebel, president of the company, and Eddie Dowling, SonoArt star, on the second feature talking picture starring Dowling, which will be in production within two weeks. Weeks has been in New York for the past month, paving the way for the merger, announced in the last issue of the HeraldWorld, of Sono-Art and World Wide Pictures. This was a logical step in the expansion of Sono-Art which now, in consolidation with World Wide, will have its own distribution as well as production unit. Physical distribution in this country of Sono-Art and World Wide pictures will be handled by Educational Film Exchanges. Empey Plans 12-Reel Army Picture SAN FRANCISCO. — Arthur Guy Empey, writer and World War veteran, and Bud Barsky, production manager of the Tiffany-Stahl studios, I>os Angeles, were recent visitors to confer with Major-General John L. Hines regarding the making of a twelve-reel sound production to be made at San Francisco and at the Presidio in Monterey. Fox Wide Dimension Film Is Given First Public Showing in New York (Special to the Herald-World) NEW ItORK, Sept. 17. — Fox Film's new method for photographing and projecting sound pictures of greater dimensions will have its first public showing tonight at the Gaiety theatre. The picture, the "Movietone Follies of 1929." will demonstrate what the Fox executives describe as the screen of the future. This new process is known as the Grandeur method. It does not necessarily give a picture of greater size, but does give a screening of a new size. Scenes of the picture were taken on a film 70 millimeters wide as against the present standard of 35 millimeters. When thrown on the screen, by a special projector, pictures so produced give the effect of third dimension and are about twice as wide as high. Special Screen Advisable As stated, the picture is not necessarily any larger, but to bring out the advantages of the wide film a special screen is called advisable, one that is as large as the proscenium opening will possibly permit. A picture of this size is a great benefit to houses of large seating capacity, especially those houses which are very wide. Another advantage claimed for the wider width film is that a wider sound track is employed and sound reproduction is of better quality and of greater tonal range. The Grandeur camera can take a scene four blocks in width and records in detail objects and action at a distance of more than a mile. It is the first device that permits the photographing of revues and other productions using large sets and many actors without resorting to long shots to take in action of full stage wTidth. The results of its use in the Fox studios have been so convincing that Fox officials insist it is the most revolutionary development in the making of motion pictures since the advent of sound. Having carefully considered its value they now announce their intention of equipping all the Fox theatres with Grandeur projectors and screens, and will install Grandeur cameras in their studios against a time, not far distant, when all Fox productions will be made in the new dimensions. FETTIFONE TALKIE EQUIPMENT EACH MACHINE MAKES GOOD HERE'S THE REASON No Waver, Vibration or Projector Strain Write for Circular NATIONAL MOTION AD CO. 2448 Prairie Avenue Chicago, 111. B WESTERN UNION it™D MONEY ORDER MESSAGE Money Sent by Ttlcjraph x W~2 X. Jj3. BaticeAl Matioc U Co. : !446 Pr«lrl« AT«. The Men*} Order paid you here* ith f rem ratrlgt ftntw —included the following mtuigc . THE WESTERN 1^1 ON TELEGRAPH COM? COT