The Film Daily (1931)

The whole nation awaits the result of THE FILM DAILY ANNUAL POLL for THE TEN BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR, Hundreds of critics representing the cream of the nation's newspapers with circulation amounting to millions have cast their votes and now await the final count. This final tabulation will be ready for publication in the very near future and every critic who has voted will have complete information for publication : : : Friday, January 16, 1931 . New Screen Is First Move I In Expansion by E. R. P. I. COMMERCIAL FILM TREND HITS THEEUROPEAN FIELD (.Continued from pane 1) tho-Krome, invented by Albert Hurley, New York physicist. The new screen has a processed surface which is said to eliminate glare, brings the most minute details of an image into clear relief without eye strain and offers the same amount of light to every patron regardless of the angle or elevation of the seat they are occupying in its relation to the screen. Other claims made for the screen are that it has a longer life than screens now in use and can be operated at a lower cost for electric current. H. G. Knox, Erpi vice-president, yesterday said that his company had taken over exclusive, distribution rights on the screen following nine months of tests at laboratories in New York and at the Lyric theater, Hoboken. In part he said "We have demonstrated that it lessens eye strain, reduces arc light power from 25 to 30 per cent and is more near-: ly_ immune to chemical reactions that might impair its effectiveness in comparison with the old screen. "Starting about Feb. 1 we will have this screen available for all exhibitors. In cases where contracts for equipment include a screen the new Ortho-Krome screen will be provided." "Heretofore," Hurley said, "the surface material of screens has been selected from those giving the lowest ratio of brightness to some one in the center of the theater and the highest to some one on the sides. The ratio was about ten to one on a silver screen and about four to one on a beaded screen and there was no way of adjusting this inequality because the screens were made from a practical standpoint without adequate consideration for the optical characteristics of the material used. "The Ortho-Krome screen is based upon the principle that the material must be optically suitable before any other consideration enters into it. We experimented minutely, our experiments involving the designing and manufacture of instruments to measure light. "We finally found a way, by using a pigment, by which harmful rays could be minimized by emphasizing other rays. The result is a screen which, while it reflects less light than the old time screen is still apparently brighter, gives every one in the theater the same amount of light and produces a better quality of picture projection. We have accomplished this by regulating the ampvjnt, intensity and quality of light transmitted and reflected to the eye so as to relieve eye fatigue and nerve strain." (Continued from page 1) Brigitte Horney. New directors are: Robert Sidomak, Karl Harte, Anatol Litwak, Eric Schmidt and Hans Steifhoff. C. J. Ross of Photophone Dies of Stroke on Coast (Continued from page 1) heart attack. Mrs. Ross was at his bedside when the end came. Ross, who was on a business visit to the coast, had been with the Radio Corporation since its formation in 1919, joining the company as comptroller and retaining that office until November, 1929, when he was elected executive vice-president of RCA Photophone. Before his RCA association he was identified with the Marconi Wirelejss Telegraph Co. for several years. Last year Ross attended the sound patents conferences in Paris and was one pi the group instrumental in bringing about the international agreement. Photophone Gets Big Job Cleveland— Contract for the installation of sound equipment in the $10,000,000 public auditorium here has been awarded to RCA Photophone. This is one of the most important non-theatrical installations made since the coming of sound, according to Sydney E. Abel, general sales manager of Photophone. Einstein a Chaplin Fan Professor Albert Einstein, noted scientist, and Mrs. Einstein were the guests of Charlie Chaplin at his home Wednesday night. Einstein has been a Chaplin fan since seeing the comedian in pictures abroad, and he told friends he would like to meet the film star. Chaplin also had expressed a desire to meet the scientist. Hedda Koppe for Talkies Montreal — Hedda Koppe, popular Swiss actress, now starring at the Theater Des Arts here, will soon leave for the states, where she plans to enter pictures. Milton to Talk on "Outward Bound" Robert Milton will address the New School of Social Research on Jan. 22 on "Outward Bound," which he staged a.s a play and for the screen. New Incorporations Films and Sound, motion picture apparatus; Strasbourger & Schallek, 11 Broadway, New York. $10,000. American Motion Picture Operators' School; M. E. Levine, 2 West 42nd St., New York. 30 shares common. Kinograms, Inc., New York, publish motion pictures, motion picture machines. United States Corp. Co., Dover, Del. $100,000.