Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

38 EXHIBITORS HERALD -WORLD .November 8, 1930 The first and the latest types of Pathe camions. Below is shown one of the earliest models in use, while at left is shown a crew of cameramen and technicians with the present type of sound news truck. (Continued from page 35, preceding pictorial spreatu comes first president of the German republic — U. S. Navy aviators in NC4 cross the Atlantic— Wilson attends the Peace conference — Versailles Peace treaty is signed — Bomb explodes in Wall street, New York — Civil War in Ireland — MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, dies after hunger strike — Ireland becomes free state. Time and the Pathe cameramen grind on : 1921 : Naval balloonists lost in Ontario wilds — Five great Allied heroes, Diaz. Jacques, Beatty, Pershing and Foch, united at American Legion Convention in KansasCity — Unknown Soldier is enshrined in nation's capitol — Washington Disarmament conference; 1922: Burning of Smyrna — Eternal City acclaims new Pope, Pius XI; 1923: Earthquake ravages Japan — President Harding dies — Calvin Coolidge takes office; 1924: Four American fliers circle globe — Coolidge elected president — The ZR-3 (now Lus Angeles) flies from Germany to America — First wireless photos sent across Atlantic Ocean; 1925: Amundsen and Ellsworth attempt flight to North Pole — Earthquake wrecks Santa Barbara — Airship Shenandoah wrecked in cyclone — U. S. submarine S-51 sunk. Graphically, l? yet silently, was recorded: 1926: United States joins World court — S. S. Antonie flounders in mid-ocean — Byrd conquers North Pole by airplane — Amundsen heads first trans-polar flight — Hurricane wreaks terrific havoc in Florida; 1927: Nungesser and Coli lost in transAtlantic flight — Mississippi Valley flood — Lindbergh flies alone to Paris — U. S. Marines rushed to Nicaragua; 1928: Bremen fliers make trans-Atlantic flight — Nobile flies over North Pole — Subway disaster at Times Square. New York — Fifteen nations Reproduction from the Pathe News reel presenting the inauguration of President Hoover, the first event of this kind to be filmed with sound. sign peace pact — Graf Zeppelin crosses ocean — S. S. Vestris sinks — Mt. Etna distroys Mascali. And then with the sounds as well as the action of life: 1929: Hoover inaugurated — Forty-six nations meet to proclaim Kellogg-Briand treaty — Graf Zeppelin circles globe in three weeks; 1930: Europa wins Atlantic speed crown — Captain Hawks crosses United States in plane-towed glider — Ohio state penitentiary burns — Kingsford-Smith crosses Atlantic — British air liner, R-101 ignites, killing 48. In the fall of 1928 arrangements were made to use the RCA Photophone system of sound recording for Pathe News. With the coming of sound, the Pathe Rooster, trade mark that had been the silent emblem of the house founded by Charles Pathe, crowed out loud with all his barnyard vorability as a prolosr to the day's news. The release of editions in sound was started November 11, 1928, with fortnightly release established. Weekly release began February 7, 1929, with issue No. 7, within three months after the first sound edition. Two issues a week were inaugurated with issue No. 18, released April 10, 1929, less than six months after the first sound reel. During its first year in sound, Pathe News brought many innovations to the audible news screen. The screen interview presented in the inaugural issue, with Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, was considered so novel that the United Press gave it the first review of a news film to go over the wires. A talking screen "extra" was issued during the inaugural week of the reel, offering a talk with_ a S. S._ Vestris survivor. An outstanding achievement of its second year in sound, and its twentieth year of establishment, was the presentation of natural color scenes. The Pathe Coloratura process, developed in the company's own laboratories, is used by Pathe News for scenes that lend themselves to unusual color values.