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Vol.LIIINo.52 Sunday. Aug. 31. 1930 Price 25 Cents
JOHN W. ALICOATE
Editor and Publisher
Published daily except Saturday and holidays at 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y., and copyright (1930) by Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc. J. W. Alicoate, President, Editor and Publisher; Donald M. Mersereau, Secretary-Treasurer and General Manager; Arthur W. Eddy, Associate Editor; Don Carle Gillette, Managing Editor. Entered as second class matter, May 21, 1918, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Terms (Postage free) United States outside of Greater New York $10.00 one year; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. Foreign, $15.00. Subscribers should remit with order. Address all communications to THE FILM DAILY, 1650 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Phone Circle 4736-4737-4738-4739. Cable address: Filmday, New York. Hollywood, California — Ralph Wilk, 6425 Hollywood Blvd. Phone Granite 6607. London — Ernest W. Fredman, The Film Renter, 89-91 Wardour St., W. I. Berlin — Karl Wolffsohn, Lichtbildbuehne, Friedrichstrasse, 225. Paris— P. A. Harle, La Cinematographic Francaise, Rue de la Cour-des-Noues. 19.
22 Television Stations Now Being Operated
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iii television from an experimental I by the Federal Radio Commission, standpoint but merely from its com together with call letters, frequenmercial aspects. cies and power used, are listed here
Television stations now licensed ' with:
Financial
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET (QUOTATIONS AS OF FRIDAY)
Net. High Low Close Chg.
Con. Fm. Ind 17H 1734 !?M
Con. Fm. Intl. pfd. 20 19?* 20 + 54
East. Kodak 22054 217 219M + 3
Fox Fm. "A" 49% 47 49J4 + 2%
Gen. Thea. Equ... 3534 33'/2 355/8 + V/2
Loew's, Inc 79"4 75 78 +25*
do pfd. ww (6V2)A06'A W6'/2 106J4 + V2 do pfd. xw (6'/2). 98 98 98 + y2
M-G-M pfd 26J4 26'A 26'A + \y2
Para. F-L 615* 59J4 615* + 1-5*
Pathe Exch 4]/2 4J4 4J4 + l/2
do "A" wy2 9 ioy2 + 154
R-K-O 36'/2 3SH 36!A + Wi
Warner Bros 30 27?* 29?* + 2
do rts 2V2 n/t 2A + y*
NEW YORK CURB MARKET
Columbia Vtc 43^* 413* 43}* + 23*
Columbia Pets. ... 41 41 41 — 54
Fox Thea. "A" .. 10^4 10 10J4 + 54 Loew do deb rts.. 43 42 43 + 354
I oew. Inc.. war... 1054 105* 1054 + 1 54 + H8Z ViLZ HSZ JO|ODtut[03X
NEW YORK BOND MARKET Gen. Th. Eq. 6s40. 95 9454 95 + 54 Loew 6s 41ww... 12054 120 12054 + 35* do 6s 41 x-war... 99 9854 9854 — 54 Paramount 6s 47...1005* 100 5* 1005* +Vi
Par. Bv. 554s50... 9454 9454 9454
Pathe 7s37 5754 57 5754
Warner 6s39 90 89 8954 + 154
Coolers for Two in Baltimore Baltimore — The New and Rivoli have installed Arctic Nu-Air and Kooler Aire cooling plants.
W2XBO
500
W3XK
5.000
W10XU
10
W1XY
250
W2XBU
100
W1XAE
20,000
W8XAV
20.000
W9XG
1.500
W2XCD
5.000
W9XAA
1,000
W9XAO
500
W2XBS
5,000
W3XAK
5,000
W2XR
500
W1XAV
500
W8XAV
20,000
W2XCW
20,000
W2XAP W2XBA W8XAV W2XCR W2XBO W9XAP
250
500
20.000
5,000 500
1,000
W3XK
5.000
W2XR
500
W9XR
5,000
W3XAD
500
2,000-2,100 Kilocycles United Research Corp. Jenkins Laboratories Jenkins Laboratories Pilot Elec. & Mfg. Co. Harold E. Smith Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Purdue University DeForest Radio Co. Chicago Federation of Labor Western Television Corp.
2,100-2,200 Kilocycles National Broadcasting Co. National Broadcasting Co. Radio Pictures, Inc. Shortwave & Television Lab. Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. General Electric Co.
2,750-2,850 Kilocycles Jenkins Television Corp. W. A. A. M., Inc. Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Jenkins Television Corp. United Research Corp. Chicago Daily News
2,850-2,950 Kilocycles Jenkins Laboratories Radio Pictures, Inc. Great Lakes Broadcasting Co. RCA Victor Company
Long Island City
Wheaton, Md.
On cabin monoplane
Lawrence, Mass.
Near Beacon, N. Y.
Springfield, Mass.
East Pittsburgh
West Lafayette, Ind.
Passaic, N. J.
Chicago
Chicago
New York
Bound Brook, N. J.
Long Island City
Boston
East Pittsburgh
South Schenectady
Portable
Newark
East Pittsburgh, Pa.
Jersey City, N. J.
Long Island City
Chicago
Wheaton, Md. Long Island City Downer's Grove, 111. Camden, N. J.
A Problem in Wide Film
Propounded by Billy Bitzer
By G. W. (Billy) Bitzer
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In 1897 I photographed the New York Central's crack train of that day, the Empire State Express, on 71 mm. film. This is the size now being hailed as the wonder film of the future. Experiments to secure it have been shrouded in secrecy.
In 1930 I took pictures with the new Colorcraft film with sound track in color, the latest development in the picture industry. This film is of current standard size.
Now here is a problem to figure out:
The film of the train taken 33 years ago is just twice the width of the Colorcraft film. The speed or sensitiveness of the old film was a tremendous lot slower than today, as was likewise the lens. To take this wide film it was necessary to use a much longer focus lens and it was a very slow lens in comparison to the high speed lenses, which are used today on account of the sound which has been added to pictures requiring the film to run at the high rate of 24 pictures per second or 90 feet per minute. Today we just barely get enough exposure with a many, many times faster lens and film. Yet, this train picture was taken at the rate of 30 pictures per second or 320 feet per minute and on a film over nine times the area of the present-day film.
Here are the comparisons: 1897 Biograph Speed of film 25% slower Speed of lens B and L.... F. 6-8
Focus of lens B and L 8"
Pictures per second 30
Feet per minute 320
Size of film 2 23/32
1930 Colorcraft Speed of film 25% faster
Speed of film F. 2/3
Focus of lens 2"
Pictures per second 24
Feet per minute 90
Size of film 35 m/m
Our thinking technician will say, "Well, you're showing us an exterior scene! We can do the same today."
But on this same width, slow emulsion film, the same slow 8-inch F. 6-8 lens at the same high rate of picture per second, a picture was taken in 1899 at the Coney Island Athletic Club, of the Sharkey-Jeffries World Championship fight with little street arc lights, which looked nothing like the present-day mammoth looking search lights, which one sees in the
The Industry's Date Book
Sept. 9-10 Annual convention of M.P
of Wisconsin at Big Cedar
Wis. Sept. 10 Academy of M. P. Arts and
ences meet to discuss wide
problems. Sept. 15-16 Ninth annual convention c)
P. T. O. of St. Louis, E« i
Missouri and Southern Illinoi I
be held in St. Louis. Sept. 17 Second meeting of Academy <
P. Arts and Sciences for disci
of production problems and
film.
Film Golf Tournament to be
by "The Exhibitor" of Ph:
phia. Sept. 27 Entertainment and dance giv.
Pathe employees at the
Astor, New York. Oct. 3 Opening of "The Big Trail'
Roxy. Oct. 20-21 Tenth Annual Conventio <
M.P.T.O. of Western Pennl/i
nia and West Virginia. Plttsl;tl Oct. 20-23 Fall meeting of the Socie i
M. P Engineers, Pennsyini
Hotel. New York. Nov. 1 Second annual dinner-dance I
held by Universal club ajtJ
Hotel Astor, New York. Nov. 10, 11, 12 Annual M.P.T.O. A. si
vention to be held in Philadnii
COMING & GOINt
JESSE LASKY is on his way easi o» the coast.
LEWIS MILESTONE will return a abroad in about two weeks.
HERMAN RIFKIN of Hollywoo change, Boston, is in New York on ; ness trip.
MRS. SIGMUND ROMBERG hi the coast for New York.
JOSEPH PLUNKETT is in Detn the opening of the R-K-O Uptown,
MAX DREYFUS, music publish aboard the Majestic bound for Euro
MAX O'MALLEY has sailed c Europa for a trip abroad.
A. I. KESSLER of Novelty Scenic has left for the coast.
HARRY M. GOETZ, assistant tr of Paramount Publix, has arrived it from Hollywood.
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Just a few more figures that (h lieve are mighty interesting. Tl lasted 25 rounds. Figure 3 to each round and one minute 1 mission during which the were running. There are 5,280 ijt t a mile and we have approxii e seven and a quarter miles of ,<» This picture earned for its owrfl understand, over a $1,000,000 |>i 30 years ago!
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