The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Sep-Oct 1922)

Xvi. THE FULCO SPEEDCO ARC CONTROLLER. LTHOUGH tremendous strides have been made in many kinematograph projector appurtenances, it is only within the last few vears that attention has been directed to that all-important factor-—** are control.’” The time-worn and unsatisfactory method of hand feeding is still forming the chief worry in many operating-boxes, for it is humanly impossible for any operator to keep his are adjusted by hand every eighteen seconds, It stands to reason, therefore, that either the screened picture or the machine suffers. | Automatic control is, therefore, the only method which will ensure the ideal picture on the sereen, Automatic Control. Various automatic controls have been placed on the market from time to time, but the latest. which is known as the Fuleo Speedco Are Controiler. represents the latest advance in. this direction, and is being handled in’ Eneland through = Filimn Agencies, of 19, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, by Mr. Sidney Bernstein. © The new Control guarantees the steady and reliable feeding of the carbon, and produces a constant and well iluminated picture at all times, and is, moreover, economical, both as regards carbons and clectrie current. The Centrifugal Governor. . The new are controller makes use of one of the most acenrate and positive controls known, namely, the centrifacal governor, This device has been lone reeounised as the only means of a fine accurate and positive control of gas and steun engines, and more recently as a speed control for kinematogrann pro. jection machines. Tt, therefore, scares over its -predecessors by reason of the fact that it does not depend on maynets, rheostats, or clectrieal contacts, exeept to connpet the highly sensitive series motor to the are cireuit, which varies in its revolutions per minute, aceording to the Jength of the are. Principle of Control. The vrinciple is this—as the are is lengthened the voltage Inereases and overcomes the additional resistance of the motor, its speed, and being directly connected to a shaft earrving the governors, in turn throws in a clutch which sets a different gear in) motion, and which = transinits its power through a telescopic rod to the are lamp feed. Another exclusive feature of this controller is a graduated dial nsed to regulate the length of the are. thereby increasing The gearing is under cover, that of the controller ease being. in an oil bath. = These distinctive features of mechanical construction provide a machine which will render invaluable and uninterrupted service, and should present itself te every exhibitor as a sure guarantee of nerfect screen illumination. THE GARDINER SCREEN. T is claimed for the Gardiner Velvet Gold Fibre Screen that it will give from 75 to 100 per cent. better picture repro duction than any other sereen on the market. It is also guaranteed to cut current costs at least by 33} per cent. The Gardiner Screen softly diffuses the light over the whole picture without absorbing it, soft Jow-cost illumination. . . ; Messrs David P. Howells, T.td., make the offer to theatre proprietors to instal the Gardiner Sereen alongside any other sereen on the market. and the theatre owner shall be the sole judge of the result.” Recent installations of the screen were at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, during the picture season there: the Rivoli Theatre, Commercial Road: the Theatre Roval, and requires only a Bradford; the Lounge Theatre, Teeds: Garron’s Theatre, Southend-on-Sea: the Tivoli, Aberdeen; and the Dome, Worthing. Google THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEWS (Technical Supplement). Sept. 2, 1922. NEW MUSIC. ESSRS. BOOSEY AND CO., of 293, Regent Strect, London, W.1, have obtained for publication the edmplete series of arrangements by the late Jules Mulder. Thies collection includes operatic selections, fantasias, and many modem and classical masterpieces. They are written for a small salon orchestra consisting of violin solo, violin oblignte, His intimate knowledge of the possibilities of this combination has ‘cello, contrabass and piano, with harmonium part ad ib. enabled the arranger to lenve a series of works, which, in their Unlike the ordinary trie the supplementary instruments, still remains essentially a trio arrange. ment, the works of Fules Mulder are remarkable for their charm, They at once arrest the own sphere, are absolutely unique, arrangement, which, notwithstanding addition — of power and wealth of orchestral effect. musician's interest, and with the general public are an instantaneous success wherever plived. Suitable for Light Picture Work. Messrs. Boosey have just published the latest number, suitable for light picture work, entitled ‘SA Day Out. This suite is very light and of the rag type, as can be imagined by the title, and consists of three numbers. Ne. I is a march typical of the dandy coon, with a aiuted cornet effect. No. 2 is a sliw melody of the negro type. given in the first place to the oboe (clarionet or cornet), and upon return to thet same melody, in the second place to the ‘cello, No. 3 isa rag, one or two-step number, very bright. and in the finale a each Appropriate cues are given for use where the instrument named are absent. orchestral Coon’s reminiscence of movement is intreduced, GARDINER VELVET GOLD FIBRE SCREEN Mr. GARDINER’S ASSURANCE OF QUALITY, “THE GARDINER VELVET GOLD FIBRE SCREEN is the only one that is constructed of 100 per cent. pure metal leaf, and I fully guarantee the Screen for a period ot Five Years against faul y workmanship and material, and I am perfectly willing to give you this guarantee in writing. “[ ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE IT NOT TO -~ OXODIZE, WHICH IS SOMETHING NO OTHER SCREEN MANUFACTURER DOES. “T AM willing to prove to you in your own theatre, beside any other make or makes, that the GARDINER SCREEN is superior to any: other screen manufactured. I will gladly send you a GARDINER SCREEN to try out side by side with any screen, onthe understanding that you will buy the one that gives the best results, and you to be the judge.” DAVID P. HOWELLS, LTD. CINE EQUIPMENT DEPT., 29a Charing Cross Road, LONDON, W.C.2.