Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

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October 11, 1930 EXHIBITORS HERALD-WORLD 27 See Uniform Projection With New Standard Release Print Expect to Eliminate Waste And Mutilation of Pictures Suit Against ERPI By Aelograph Goes Into Court Nov. 13 Claims of 50 to 100 Millions May Be Made, Says Manager, for Alleged Infringement (Special to the Herald-World) SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 9.— Suit of the Aelograph Company of America, owners of a talking picture patent, against the Electrical Research Products, Inc., in the United States District court here is set for hearing November 13. The Aelograph company brought the suit in equity and for an accounting of profits and also asked for an injunction against the Research Products company last May, alleging infringements of patent rights. They asked for damages and according to G. S. McElroy, manager of the company, they can establish a claim from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. Aelograph is a Delaware corporation, with offices and headquarters in San Antonio and owned by about 800 stockholders scattered over Southwest Texas. The company was incorporated in 1923, following the purchase of the patent rights from Allen Stowers and Leo DeHymel, San Antonians, who obtained the patents two years previously. Stowers is still a large stockholder in the company, which is incorporated for $30,000. Former Communist Sees Terrible Red Menace in American Productions (Special to the Herald-World) PORTLAND, ORE., Oct. 9.— M. R. Bacon, formerly a member of the communists' organization, provided material for a good laugh in local film circles when as a witness before the federal committee investigating Red activities in the United States he declared that American producers were being used by the soviet to produce two propaganda pictures. He named "High Treason" of Tiffany and "Loving the Ladies," produced by Radio Pictures. He added, however, that he had no evidence that this was done with the knowledge of the producers. Miss Aldrich Still Active (Special to the Herald-World) MOSCOW, IDAHO, Oct. 9.— Miss Maude M. Aldrich, vice-president and field secretary of the Federal Motion Picture Council in America, Inc., told the Northern Idaho WCTU that motion pictures are undermining the influence of the home, school and church by creating false standards of social life, and added that they are "the greatest foes of prohibition." City Gets New Theatre For Repealing Blue Law (Special from B. M. B.) CANAJOHARIE, N. Y., Oct. 9.— Opening of the new Strand theatre here marks the fulfillment of a pledge which Jack Vassil, owner of the Strand, made to the city council last spring when he promised he would build a new theatre if the blue laws were repealed. New Method of Change-Over Said to Solve One of Most Troublesome Problems (Special to the Herald-World) NEW YORK, Oct. 9. — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences through the M P P D A has announced a new form of standard release print to go into effect November 1 which is expected to result in uniform projection in theatres and to eliminate waste and mutilation to film. The standard has been adopted by all major producing and distributing companies and is endorsed by the National Body of Projectionists, completing six months' effort by the Academy to bring every technical branch of the industry into cooperation. The chief features of development are : Standardization of nomenclature for different types of prints as well as units comprising each reel, inscription for identification, synchronizing marks, and method for changeover from reel to reel. In bringing about a uniform change-over method, one of the most troublesome problems in projection should be solved, making it unnecessary for the individual projectionist to place his own change-over marks. In addition to this system, standard specifications cover leaders at both the beginning and end of the picture, including protective, identification and synchronizing leaders. Four types of prints are defined in the nomenclature, as follows : Sound print for film, sound print for disc, sound print combination, and silent print. Technical Experts Cooperate Beside making for easier handling and smoother projection for the exhibitor in showing pictures, the new standard eliminates the necessity of the director in the studio shooting silent dead action at the end of a reel. This is said to be the first time in the history of the industry that technical experts have joined in such a development. Up to November 1, an advance educational program will be conducted to pave the way for the standard reaching every theatre, exchange and studio in the country, acquainting managers, projectionists, editors and laboratory executives with the features of the new standard. The development was worked out by a subcommittee of experts under the supervision of the Academy Producers-Technicians' committee, of which Irving Thalberg is chairman, and involved analysis, survey and correlation of practices of technicians throughout the country. Committee of Experts The committee of experts included Sidney Burton for the Projectionists, N. H. Brower for the exchanges, A. J. Guerin as laboratory representative, James Wilkinson as film editor, Gerald Rackett, former manager of the Technical Bureau, and Sidney J. Twining as chairman. Projectionists active in furthering the standard are George Edward, president of the American Projection Society, Thad Barrows, J. P. McGuire, Lester Isaacs and Charles Eichorn, leaders of the Projection Advisory Council, which has formed a technical coordination committee to answer questions regarding the use of the standard. Lester Cowan, manager of the Academy Technical Bureau, is here contacting company executives on behalf of the new system. Evanston Master Okays Sunday Films After 3-Year Fight Evanston, a Chicago suburb and the scarred battleground of a blue law war that has smouldered and flamed for more than three years, is at last going to have peaces — unless there is another outbreak. George E. Gorman, master in chancery for the circuit court, who was appointed to hear arguments on the motion picture question, has decided that Evanston will have Sunday pictures. But William Lister, corporation counsel for the city, when he heard the decision, declared that the administration's fight against the theatres is not ended. Chicago Denies Writ to Show "Primrose Path" A circuit judge has denied a petition for mandamus by Greiver Productions, Chicago motion picture distributors, to compel the city to issue a license for showing of "The Primrose Path." Cincinnati Union Says Theatres Were Sold to Avoid Contract; Sues for $26,000 (Special to the Herald-World) CINCINNATI, Oct. 9. — Local No. 165 of the Motion Picture Operators' Union has brought suit against the Ohio Theatre and Show Company and the Dixie Amusement Company for $26,000 damages, charging the former company sold the Rex and Gem theatres to the latter to void a definite contract for union operators, expiring September, 1931. Jennie Carlin and F. W. Huss, Jr., owners, sold the theatres to the Dixie Amusement Company last May.