Exhibitors Herald World (Oct-Dec 1930)

November 22, 1930 Exhibitors Herald-World 45 man, merely in order to save himself a little labor and trouble, would not do something which he very well knows will injure the show projected by his fellow union man who must use those films afterward. Incidentally, my brother, being a good union man, means something besides paying your dues, wearing an I A button and bragging about your Unionism. It means also that regardless of the amount of work involved, you will perform your various duties in the very best possible manner. If you cause unnecessary damage to the films — and unnecessary damage most emphatically includes smearing them with oil — you have been just as untrue to union principles as you would be did you work under the scale. That is a statement which many of you will vociferously dispute. However, your disputations will not alter the fact — and what I have said is cold fact, though some union men have not taught themselves or been taught to look upon it in that light. I am laying that matter before you, gentlemen, because from the amount of oil-smeared film I find, it is about time it was laid before you. I don't care two whoops in New Jerusalem how much your intermittent oil well may leak. You can keep the oil off the film if you really try! And certainly it is high time that each projectionist were trying. DEFACING PRINTS FROM B. H. Higgins, projectionist at the Princess theatre in St. Marys, Kan., comes this letter: "Dear Mr. Richardson: With regard to the letter from Mr. Hersey, projectionist of Elsinore, Cal. (titled 'Projectionist— Operator'), in the issue of September 27, he certainly hit the nail on the head in what he said about marking, scratching or otherwise defacing film for the purpose of imprinting upon it a changeover signal. "My own reaction to this is that every exchange should charge the theatre perpetrating such an outrage for the damage done. If that be done, there will be less damage of that sort perpetrated. "We (my father and I) are away out here, one hundred miles from any film exchange, and you ought to see the prints we sometimes receive. We have found a way to cure the habit some exchanges have of sending out anything that looks like a picture and letting us do the rest. We refuse such prints, and of course they are compelled to send replacements, prepaid, which is something they just love to do— I don't think! "Several times I have started to save some of the things I have cut out of films, to send them to you, just to give you an idea of what they work off on us when they feel like it. I am going to do it some time, too, and that before long. "I do not know whether I stole Brother SOUND IS NO LONGER A NOVELTY Remember — the Public still uses its Eyes at a Picture Show. Screen flicker .... light variation, needlessly as well as silently, drive patrons to other types of amusement. Why not look into the TRANSVERTER and its kindred equipment ? Thousands of theatres know how well it has improved their projection. Smooth — constant — economical — quiet in operation — its presence in your projection room is instantly recognized— wherever installed. // you show pictures, you need the TRANSVERTER. Ask your Supply Dealer or us for further details WHY. J Canadian Distributors, Perkins Electric, Ltd. THE HERTNER ELECTRIC COMPANY •«».MH^aa«!j Exclusive Manufacturers of the Transverter 12700 Elmwood Avenue Cleveland, Ohio, U. S. A. Made In 500, 1000, 1500 and 2000 watt capacity THE EASY ! ELECTRIC HEATER Designed especially for Theatre Organ Chambers, Box Offices, etc., but will prove useful in many other places. AISLE LIGHTS For Theatre Chairs, Ramps & Stairways KAUSALITE MFG. CO. 8129 Rhodes Ave., Chicago, 111. FLUSH WALL AISLE LIGHT STANDARD CHAIR TYPE